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Musca domestica or Sarcophagidae
The position in the first picture was a bit of a surprice. Lasted for app. 20 seconds, and after the reproduction session was over. They are not stuck in a web, they are standing on a web-nest from a type of moth.
Mixed meadow and woodland in the outskirts of a small town.
100 pathogens associated with the house fly may cause disease in humans and animals; pathogens are picked up by flies from garbage, sewage and other sources of filth, and transferred to human and animal food on fly mouthparts, other contaminated body parts, or through their vomitus/feces (http://bugguide.net)
Spotted on Jun 19, 2013
Submitted on Jun 24, 2013
6 Comments
Well I'm not sure but here is the key http://www.techletter.com/Top%2010%20pes... saying that the central band on the thorax shouldn't extend to the wings....I'd say is some sort of flesh fly
Interesting!
Very interesting, thanks!
They are vectors. Vector-borne transmission occurs when infectious agent carried by an insect or an animal (vector) to a susceptible host. A lot of different types of animals can be vectors of different virus, bacteria and parasites without getting injured/sick from it themselves.
Nice catch, totally scandinavian style :)
So do the house flies have a resistance to these pathogens?