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Golden Dung Fly

Scathophaga stercoraria

Photo by dferris
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Field Notes

Description:

Yellow fly. Found after walking up to a decayed deer carcass, it then flew away. As it was flying I could see it was carrying something black, which I could later see was another fly. I couldn't tell if the other fly was alive or dead.

Habitat:

Floodplain forest

Reference Links:

Fly - Scathophaga stercoraria - BugGuide.Net

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