Arthropoda: Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae: Toxomerus marginatus [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae: Toxomerus marginatus
Common Name: flower fly

Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: n/a
Date: 8 July 2001

Photographer: D. S. Kjar

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable

Location: Georgetown University

Ecology Laboratory Butterfly Garden

Keywords: A brown fly flower fly Forest Ecology GU pollination pollinator yellow fly
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This female of Toxomerus marginatus is consuming pollen of Blanket Flower, Gaillardia puchella (Asteraceae).




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