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tachina flies, Raupenfliegen

Tachinidae

Description:

it just rained and a spiky looking fly got somehow in. an interesting fact is that the larvae are living like parasites on puppa, imagines and caterpillars of different species females of different Tachinidae species have an ovipositor, so they can directly lay their egg into the host

Habitat:

outside, everywhere

Notes:

@ nana puppet

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3 Comments

updated

thanks Juan

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

It's a Tachinid fly

Gemeinde Kottingbrunn, Niederösterreich, Austria

Spotted on Jul 27, 2011
Submitted on Jul 27, 2011

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