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Scathophaga furcata
The fly in the first photo was definitely the king/queen of the pile. It stayed at the very top and would attack any other flies that dared to try to summit the scat. The flies were about 8-9mm long. They were brown with sparse black hairs on the thorax, and had red eyes and antennae.
Spotted mating on scat (probably from Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes) that was on a rock in a deciduous forest. There were many small bones and feathers in the scat, as you can see in the photos. My kids and I often rest on this particularly comfortable and large rock when we hike these woods, and over the past few months, foxes have been using it as a latrine. My guess is they are trying to claim the rock as their own, and so far they are winning the battle.
This is the first spotting of this species on Project Noah.
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