Can anybody help me identify this fly. It was photographed feeding on nectar/pollen on Yarrow flower. It is a large clumsy fly. I was unable to identify it from any book that I own.
Green Eyed Fly.
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A very nice male tabanid; but I do not know your fauna.
You may be able to key it out using Mackerras
http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_ ... 05330.html
You may be able to key it out using Mackerras
http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_ ... 05330.html
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives