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Large fly with a black and white striped thorax and a white face with a black stripe between the eyes.
Compost pile in a field on the edge of a deciduous forest.
Family Sarcophagidae
Spotted on Sep 18, 2012
Submitted on Sep 18, 2012
3 Comments
It's not a house fly.
If I have the right family I believe this fly is parasitic and doesn't bite. Some of the horseflies back home have a pretty nasty bite though.
The flies in my region that look like that has a very painful bite. Does it bite?