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2110	Hallo.. This interesting little fly was in my garden yesterday, posing with its patterned wings held out as if displaying. ...	Chris Webster ecf82	Oct 2, 2004 10:29 pm
2111	Hi Chris It is one of the Tephritid fruit flies - ‘Picture wing flies’. They often have elaborate courtship involving waving of the wings, which can be...	Don Stenhouse carabusuk	Oct 3, 2004 5:14 am
2112	On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 23:37:49 +0100 ... Hi Don Thanks for the information.... I was impressed by this one first of all because it was a good flier, hovering and...	Chris Webster ecf82	Oct 3, 2004 9:03 pm
2113	This fly looks like Palloptera muliebris, family Pallopteridae which is related to Tephritidae. A web search should produce pictures which you can compare. ...	tipula_maxima	Oct 3, 2004 11:41 pm
2114	Hi alan Told you I didn’t study flies! What are the differences between Pallopteridae and Tephritidae? Cheers Don ... From: tipula_maxima...	Don Stenhouse carabusuk	Oct 4, 2004 12:05 am
2115	Hi alan Told you I didn’t study flies! What are the differences between Pallopteridae and Tephritidae? Cheers Don ... From: tipula_maxima...	Don Stenhouse carabusuk	Oct 4, 2004 12:05 am
2116	Hi alan Told you I didn’t study flies! What are the differences between Pallopteridae and Tephritidae? Cheers Don ... From: tipula_maxima...	Don Stenhouse carabusuk	Oct 4, 2004 12:13 am
2117	Hi alan Told you I didn’t study flies! What are the differences between Pallopteridae and Tephritidae? Cheers Don ... From: tipula_maxima...	Don Stenhouse carabusuk	Oct 4, 2004 2:04 am
2118	Hi all Apologies for the repeated message. I don’t know why this has happened, only this group is affected. Cheers Don Don Stenhouse 0161-865-3267 HYPERLINK...	Don Stenhouse carabusuk	Oct 4, 2004 6:56 am
2119	Hi all I have added a couple of grasshoppers and hoverflies to my blog. I would be very grateful for some help with ID please. I am fairly sure of Eristalis...	Brian Stone brianhstone	Oct 4, 2004 3:35 pm
2120	Hi Brian, the hovers look like E. tenax to me although a pic showing the legs would have confirmed it one way or the other. The hoppers are both Meadow...	steve covey od0man	Oct 4, 2004 5:41 pm
2121	Hi, after attempting to ID Brian's hoppers, I now have one myself that I would like confirmation of please. It's in: ...	steve covey od0man	Oct 4, 2004 6:17 pm
2122	... Many thanks. Brian...	Brian Stone brianhstone	Oct 4, 2004 6:27 pm
2123	... There are several families of superficially similar flies with pictured wings, the differences between them are not easy to see without a good lens or a...	tipula_maxima	Oct 4, 2004 7:40 pm
2124	On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:41:02 -0000 ... Indeed it does.. I should have spent more time looking through Malcolm Storey' photos......	Chris Webster ecf82	Oct 4, 2004 10:02 pm
2125	Hello, 4 October 2004 On the footpath approach to Mill Hill from the Waterworks Road, at least three species of hoverflies including one Helophilus pendulus, a...	British Marine Life S... glaucus25	Oct 4, 2004 10:54 pm
2126	Hello, Has the American Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, been discovered i England. Does it survive our winters and does it pose a risk to our local fauna? Cheers ...	British Marine Life S... glaucus25	Oct 5, 2004 9:26 am
2127	Hi! Unfortuately it has been discovered in England. Interesting article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/3715120.stm ... From: British Marine...	Chris Sullivan kitman22001	Oct 5, 2004 10:10 am
2128	Hello, See also http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/newdept/research/labs/majerus.htm It is an Asian ladybird. Cheers Andy Horton...	British Marine Life S... glaucus25	Oct 5, 2004 10:30 am
2129	Thanks Andy. The link below is also interesting as it shows all the variants. http://www.ent.orst.edu/urban/Harmonia.html Chris ... From: British Marine Life...	Chris Sullivan kitman22001	Oct 5, 2004 10:33 am
2130	Hello, Have you seen this Asian bug (ladybird)? http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/newdept/research/labs/Majerus/Harmoniapair.jpg Will the poster go up in Post Offices...	British Marine Life S... glaucus25	Oct 5, 2004 10:34 am
2131	The hoppers are not meadow grasshoppers.The top one is a female and the wings are too long.It is the Lesser Marsh grasshopper C. albomarginatus, named from the...	p.lund@... plund42uk	Oct 5, 2004 3:04 pm
2132	Dear Andy, This is the Japanese ladybird I wrote about last week! It was released in America and southern Europe where it is causing ecological chaos. ...	Paul Mabbott paul_mabbott	Oct 5, 2004 3:07 pm
2133	I would expect a 'harlequin' to be black and white ... that's a penguin ;o) sorry Paul couldn't resist it. Chris ... From: Paul Mabbott...	Chris Court ccourtuk	Oct 5, 2004 3:25 pm
2134	I am glad you said this because from just looking at other pictures I thought this looked like Lesser Marsh but I know nothing about the status and...	Brian Stone brianhstone	Oct 5, 2004 3:34 pm
2135	Dear Andy, I doubt if anything will happen - the beast is just as likely to fly across as be imported on plants. In identification size is important. H....	paul_mabbott	Oct 5, 2004 5:54 pm
2136	I'm trying to delete from group but am at a loss . Sorry for this misposting . ... From: "Don Stenhouse" <don.sten@...> To:...	Henry Papworth henrymoth	Oct 5, 2004 8:24 pm
2137	Oops! Sorry Brian;-( what is it they say about "where angels fear to tread"? My excuse is that [as far as I know] Lesser Marsh doesn't occur in Wiltshire and I...	steve covey od0man	Oct 5, 2004 10:09 pm
2138	Hi Steve, I would tentatively suggest the Woodland Grasshopper as you have done, mainlly because i took an image of a similar creature at Martin Down nature...	Richard Thomas richard_thom...	Oct 6, 2004 3:44 pm
2139	Hello all! Any fly experts amongst us? Take a look at the usual link: http://www.uknature.co.uk/unidentified.html Can anybody identify this fly? It was...	Jeremy Lee jezlee126	Oct 6, 2004 7:42 pm

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