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Scathophaga stercoraria
Medium sized brightly coloured fly (up to 1cm). The male is a bright yellow while the female is a duller yellow-green.
Found in fields and manure piles. Cow dung heaps are particularly favoured.
They are a predatory fly hunting, mating, egg-laying all occur on the dung heaps.
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