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Golden Dung Fly

Scathophaga stercoraria

Description:

SO FREAKING SMALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Notes:

ONLY ONE CENTIMETER!? plant its sitting on is Chickweed.

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Gordon Dietzman
Gordon Dietzman 10 years ago

I believe this is a golden dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria). Take a look at this page: http://bugguide.net/node/view/383975/bgp.... In particular, read this info page: http://bugguide.net/node/view/8320. Nice job in getting multiple views. Good job!

Gala Academy
Spotted by a stud ent at Gala Academy

Missouri, USA

Spotted on Apr 9, 2013
Submitted on Apr 11, 2013

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