ID anyone

[MrDeranged]

This is like the weirdest "fly" I've ever seen. Anyone have any ideas?

S

 

[Steven Gielis]

It looks like a special fruitfly with ovipositor. In Florida they have such a species infecting grapefruit.

Something like this:http://attra.ncat.org/images/fruitover/fruitfly.jpg
Buth they are a huge amount of species.

 

[Niloticus]

That's one funky looking fly.

Niloticus

 

[Mat]

Looks like a species of Picture Winged Fly to me - family Tephritidae. Most of these are gall formers in seedheads or stems of plants, females use the long ovipisitor to place eggs deep into the centre of daisy type Composite flowers.

Matt

 

[Tcrazy]

that is a pyrgotid fly (pyrgota spp.) the larva is a parasite of the may beetle... it feeds on the inside of these .

 

[JCola]

this a platystomatid fly, probably in the genus Rivellia. Just FYI, in the Nearctic, pyrgotid flies do not have ocelli, and other flies than tephritids have ovipositors.

 

[Spike]

What ever it is its pretty cool looking. Nice find and great pic

 

[Scorpendra]

i see this species all the time where i live. they're pretty cool.