Mutant fly?

[Mace Canute]

I just caught the strangest fly on a sticky strip! It's a normal size for a housefly, and everything from the abdomen forwards looks normal but it has a pure white abdomen with three rectangular brassy colored bars crossways on the top of the abdomen. The bars are very well defined too, sharp 90 degree corners. I wish I had a camera to take a pic, cause it is definitely the weirdest fly I have ever seen!

 

[Jeff Lary]

I think it is a Stable fly and be glad you got to him first they bite like he11.You can google it and they will have a photo I am sure.

 

[MossRoad]

Look closer. If it says "Help me. HHhheeelppp me!" squish it! :laughing:

 

[brin]

I just caught the strangest fly on a sticky strip! It's a normal size for a housefly, and everything from the abdomen forwards looks normal but it has a pure white abdomen with three rectangular brassy colored bars crossways on the top of the abdomen. The bars are very well defined too, sharp 90 degree corners. I wish I had a camera to take a pic, cause it is definitely the weirdest fly I have ever seen!

I know exactly what you have Mace....Your hint should have been the Bars...You have a very rare Bar Fly You could do a service by returning him to the Bar nearest where you found him....might be a reward !:laughing:

 

[Mace Canute]

Jeff, I looked up Stable lies and although they are a bit similar in that both have markings on their abdomen, it isn't what you would call a match. This fly is about half again as large as a Stable Fly and the coloration isn't anything close either. I think it's just a one off mutation.

 

[Mace Canute]

Brin, not a Bar Fly (drosophila melanogaster)! The fly I caught is a good 4 times larger than drosophila melanogaster.

 

[grsthegreat]

You caught a rogue CIA drone fly. you MUST release it or face the wrath of Jack booted thugs.:laughing:

 

[rmully]

Might be an Alien .... Don't touch it :laughing:

 

[hizoot]

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly - YouTube

 

[tallyho8]

Are you located near a nuclear power plant?