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Indigoez Floresville, TX(Zone 9a) Sep 16, 2004

I caught this huge, nasty looking fly yesterday on a trumpet vine flower, and after a trip to the refrigerator, it was quite a cooperative subject hehe.

The first pic is to show how big it is in comparison to my finger, pretty big for a fly.

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Indigoez Floresville, TX(Zone 9a) Sep 16, 2004

Here's another larger picture.

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Indigoez Floresville, TX(Zone 9a) Sep 16, 2004

One more.

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onalee Brooksville, FL(Zone 9a) Sep 16, 2004

Geez - I don't need any flies like that! We have plenty of the little biting ones here, don't need giant ones!

:-)

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Calalily Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a) Sep 16, 2004

Actually he is a good fly, a tachinid fly.

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Indigoez Floresville, TX(Zone 9a) Sep 16, 2004

Thanks Cala:-) They can have all the passiflora eating caterpillars they want.

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Calalily Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a) Sep 16, 2004

Indigoez are the cats eating your passifloras to little nubs like they did mine? Incense couldnt' even grow fast enough to stay ahead of the cats! Lady Margaret seems to be holding her own now though.

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Monocromatico Rio de Janeiro, Brazil(Zone 11) Sep 16, 2004

Is that one of those chewing, blood sucker flies?

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Calalily Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a) Sep 17, 2004

No, these are not blood suckers. They lay their eggs on caterpillars. The adults eat nectar I think.

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Monocromatico Rio de Janeiro, Brazil(Zone 11) Sep 17, 2004

Oh... so they would be welcome in my garden, if I ever have one.

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Buttoneer Carlisle, PA(Zone 6b) Sep 19, 2004

If it wouldn't be so big & hairy, it wouldn't be disgusting. It is probably very handsome to a fly of the opposite gender. LOL.

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