Large Fruit Fly?

e6filmuser

I am unsure of what this fly was. I am calling it a large fruit fly but it was at least twice the size of a Drosophila. It was on a Loganberry in August. I had considerable difficulty with getting good shooting angles and with getting lighting past the foliage.

For the above reason, no single image does quite what I would have liked but these have some merit. All have been cropped moderately

EM-1 Printing Nikkor 105mm at f11, flash, hand-held.

Harold

Lord Vetinari

Good captures Harold - Looks like a Heleomyzid fly probably Suillia sp.
Brian v.

e6filmuser

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Good captures Harold - Looks like a Heleomyzid fly probably Suillia sp.
Brian v.

Thanks, Brian.

I thought you might know.

I can now do a bit more research into its identity.

Harold

e6filmuser

It looks very much like Suillia pallida but there may be other, similar species.

Harold

Paul Iddon

Fine fly - all gone for the winter sadly...

Paul.