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Yellow Dung Fly
Scathophaga furcata
41.6243, -73.3984
Field Notes
Description:
The fly in the first photo was definitely the king/queen of the pile. It stayed at the very top and would attack any other flies that dared to try to summit the scat. The flies were about 8-9mm long. They were brown with sparse black hairs on the thorax, and had red eyes and antennae.
Habitat:
Spotted mating on scat (probably from Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes) that was on a rock in a deciduous forest. There were many small bones and feathers in the scat, as you can see in the photos. My kids and I often rest on this particularly comfortable and large rock when we hike these woods, and over the past few months, foxes have been using it as a latrine. My guess is they are trying to claim the rock as their own, and so far they are winning the battle.
Notes:
This is the first spotting of this species on Project Noah.
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