Dance fly (female)

Thanks for all the help on this one! :-)

It's the same :) It looks like stho002 got the ID.

This pic is a pretty much exact match: http://bugguide.net/node/view/55394

Thanks, Cindy. I guess it would help if I went and read the BugGuide link that was shared. ;-) So this type of fly is sexed just like the horse fly. (I learned the method and shared it with this spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/380... )

Female

If the eyes touch in the middle, it's a male. If not, it's a female.

Thank you, stho002. So it's the fringes on the legs that tell us it's a female?

Wow, that didn't take long. Thanks, Tom!

Love it!