Mutant fly?

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Mace Canute

Mace Canute

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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!
 
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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.
 
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Look closer. If it says "Help me. HHhheeelppp me!" squish it! :laughing:
 
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Mace Canute said:
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!
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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:
 
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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.
 
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Brin, not a Bar Fly (drosophila melanogaster)! The fly I caught is a good 4 times larger than drosophila melanogaster.
 
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You caught a rogue CIA drone fly. you MUST release it or face the wrath of Jack booted thugs.:laughing:
 
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Might be an Alien .... Don't touch it :laughing:
 
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