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DavidWNicholls Concord, CA Aug 08, 2013

Hi

Is this a fruit fly or some sort of biting fly?
(I found many of these in the house and am trying to find out if they have been biting me).

This is a picture taken using a microscope.

Thanks

Dave

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 08, 2013

Appears to be a hump-backed/scuttle fly in the family Phoridae - http://www.serprosan.cl/attachments/Image/Moscas/megscal.jpg
They do not bite; their larvae mostly are scavengers on decomposing organic matter.

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DavidWNicholls Concord, CA Aug 08, 2013

Thanks Flapdoodle

I think these came into the house with a box of tomatoes my neighbor left me

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