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Tachina Fera

Tachina fera is a large (9 to 16 mm) and bristly fly with a prominent broad black stripe down the centre of an otherwise orange abdomen.

Habitat - Can often be seen in moist and well vegetated locations where it feeds on umbellifers and waterside plants.

Nemorilla floralis

This is a very hairy fly with a two-tone appearance ranging from beige and black to pale grey and black and sometime rather speckled on the abdomen. It had a striped thorax.

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