Sunday, February 19, 2023

Yellow/Golden Dung Fly

During field survey works throughout the past week, temperatures began to rise into the early teens 13/14℃ . With these rise in temperatures many insect emerged early in the season, as I noted White-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lucorum, Buff-tailed Bumblebee  Bombus terrestris and lots of Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria.  A few of the Yellow Dung flies ended up in Spider webs like the one pictured below. This guy got a lucky escape as he fought his way out of this spiders web for over 40 minutes before escaping.







Golden or Yellow Dung Fly in spiders web © John N Murphy


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