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Title: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: mark smyth on October 27, 2009, 11:18:39 PM: From now on there should be no more questions asking what does a Narcissus fly look like. Here they are in all colour forms, maggots and damage on one page.
http://www.snowdropinfo.com/narcissusfly.htm (http://www.snowdropinfo.com/narcissusfly.htm)
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on October 28, 2009, 06:00:01 AM: Good pics from our evil enemy. Now everybody knows what it is. But how are the differences to other hover flys. That is the real problem.
If you want to see a pic of narcissus fly wedding, or if you want to hear the sound of narcissus flys, so look here: http://www.engelmannii.de/bilder/galanthus/narzissenfliege.htm (http://www.engelmannii.de/bilder/galanthus/narzissenfliege.htm)
But it`s in German language.

Oder Ihr wollt es einfach nur in deutsch lesen ;).
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: mark smyth on October 28, 2009, 11:06:09 AM: Hagen look at the page again and F5 to refresh it
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: mark smyth on October 28, 2009, 11:10:40 AM: How did you record their buzz? I have a link from your page to mine
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 28, 2009, 12:08:32 PM: An excellent resource Mark. They are amazing bumblebee mimics, even down to the fact that the different forms resemble different speices of bumblebee.
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on October 28, 2009, 12:27:50 PM: Excellent pics of good guys, Mark. That is really helpful!!!

The link is OK. You can find a link to you also on my site.

I recorded the buzz with my camera.
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: annew on October 28, 2009, 10:25:21 PM: Well done, Mark! I don't like the look of that ovipositor. >:(
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: Armin on October 28, 2009, 10:54:40 PM: Mark,
excellent photographs!
Undoubtly I'll keep an open eye next spring.
My fish net is prepared for the next hauls. ;)
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: mark smyth on October 28, 2009, 10:58:22 PM: THanks Anne and Armin. There is a problem with the page but so far I cant fix it. The hover and dronefly photos are off to the left when they should be in the middle
Title: Re: The best Narcissus fly ID page in the world!
Post by: Maggi Young on November 22, 2009, 04:32:30 PM: Narcissus Fly: see also these pages :

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4297.0 lesser narcissus fly

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1850.0

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=204.0

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3690.0