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Yellow Fly of the Dismal Swamp

Diachlorus ferrugatus

Photo by MaryEvans2
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Small orange-ish colored fly with crazy colored eyes.

Species ID Suggestions

Yellow Fly of the Dismal Swamp

Diachlorus ferrugatus

Comments (9)

Thank you all so much, and thank you LivanEscudero for the ID! I don't live but a mile away from a 'swampy' river, so the name sure fits!
Yes it is in the horse Fly subfamily... But WOW look at that Common name!!!!
wow ! what great eyes, psychedelic
you should add this to the Flies of america mission, its really cool by the way! Great shot!

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