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Conopidae , usually known as the thick-headed flies , is a family of flies within the Brachycera suborder of Diptera. Flies of the family Conopidae are distributed worldwide except for the poles an...
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Thick-headed Fly - Physoconops sp. Our Physoconops photographs were featured in The American Wildlife Federation's Field Guide to Insects 2007; Diptera Family Conopidae; Live adult thick-headed flies photographed in the wild at Winfield, Illinois, USA.
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Going back now for the first time, the wings reminded me of a picture-wing fly. Then I noticed the little yellow halteres. Whoops, wrong Order! I had to move the photo over to the Flies category. Ye gads, what is going on with those asymetrical antennae?
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Wasp or Syrphid Fly - Physoconops ... syrphid fly? - Robertsonomyia ... Odd little fly, found near water...
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Thick-headed fly, likely Physocephala furcillata ... While it is a flower feeder, this thick-headed fly (likely Physocephala furcillata of the Family Conopidae)  is a parasite of solitary bees and sometimes wasps. It can attack in mid-air, bringing its victim to the ground.
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Thick headed fly. ... Btw, some of us do a Fly Day Friday every Friday (that we can get a shot of a fly for), and there's a group for it. ...
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This photo from the TrekNature travel gallery is titled 'Thick-Headed Fly Photo'. ... Thick-headed fly sounds reasonable, you'd have to be pretty thick in the head to run around looking like this ;-)) The colour difference could derive from one being alive and the other one obviously barely so.. As you pointed out,
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Sicus ferrugineus, a Thick-headed Fly ... Click on a thumbnail to display enlarged picture (around 800 X 600 pixels). ... Our Search Engine...
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