Plants and animals of Pointfield

An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015   

Diptera: heliomyzids

heleomyzid fly

?Heleomyza sp.

Notes

Small, dark dipteran fly with clear wings, the wings having prominent spines along the costal edge. Generic determination uncertain but wing veination looks identical to this genus as illustrated on bioimages.org. Specimen possibly infected by the fungus Entomophthora as it was found dead in the moth light-trap in this unusual pose and has white ?hyphae exuding from between joints in the abdomen exoskeleton.


Months sighted in garden