This morning I saw lots of tiny flies warming up in the morning sun. I didn’t recognize them, so I grabbed my camera and took a macro photo. It turned out to be a Thaumatomyia species, mabey T. notata. This little fly belongs tot the family of Chloropidae and some species live mainly in flower meadows. Sometimes however they enter homes. A nickname is: Yellow Swarming Fly. The larvae are predaceous on aphids.
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@online{van rijswijk2024,
author = {van Rijswijk, Carlo},
title = {Thaumatomyia Spec.},
date = {2024-04-07},
url = {https://carlovanrijswijk.com/quarto/Posts/2024-04-07-thaumatomyia},
langid = {en}
}
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