Months sighted in garden
An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015
Diptera: heliomyzids
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.