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Family Bombyliidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Slender Bee Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 8mm
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- This is a small Bee Fly with hairy golden body. They are usually found
feeding on flowers in a sunny day. Notice the long proboscis for feeding
nectar. They are import pollinators of some flower plant species.
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- Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest during early summer. There were a
number of them feeding on flowers of Forest Boronia (Boronia rosmarinifolia).
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- Pictures was taken in White Hill during early summer. We cannot
identify this fly. George Foster send us email advised that it is a Bombyliid.
Then we narrowed down that this is the Geron sp..
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- Bee Flies in the subfamily usually have the slender body covered with
short hairs. They also have long and slender proboscis to feed on
flowers.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 758.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p364.
- 3. Bee Fly
Geron sp., - Diptera (flies) of Orange County, California, by Peter J. Bryant.
- 4. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum 2003, p 135.
- 5. Studies in Pacific Bombyliidae (Diptera) II. Revision of the genus Geron of Australia and the Pacific - Evenhuis, Neal L., Pacific Insects Vol. 21, no. 1: 13-55 30 August 1979.
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