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?

 

[sailorman]

Google has a feature that can use an image and find references to it. Just upload the image and google looks for it and references.

 

[grsthegreat]

Google has a feature that can use an image and find references to it. Just upload the image and google looks for it and references.

they do? where can i find that

 

[sailorman]

they do? where can i find that

go to google . Select images . Just below box where you type your search you will see "new" and a link called " learn more " along with a short explanation of how to try it now .

 

[grsthegreat]

go to google . Select images . Just below box where you type your search you will see "new" and a link called " learn more " along with a short explanation of how to try it now .

o cool... i have a picture of a spider i saw on my place that i want to know more about...like if its poisonous or not. i HATE bugs

 

[creekbend]

go to google . Select images . Just below box where you type your search you will see "new" and a link called " learn more " along with a short explanation of how to try it now .

Thanks for the info about Google.

 

[RobertBrown]

It's going to be very difficult to identify this insect without a photo. I use this website to identify insects. If you submit a photo you will have an ID in a few minutes.
You can look through these photos and see if you can find a match but it's like looking through haystack for a needle.
Not a lot going on in Saskatoon today eh Mace?

Order Diptera - Flies - BugGuide.Net

 

[grsthegreat]

Since Mace doesn't have a photo.....maybe he was just imagining this fly..... kinda a drug induced vision caused by living so far past the equator??? :laughing: :laughing:

 

[RobertBrown]

Since Mace doesn't have a photo.....maybe he was just imagining this fly..... kinda a drug induced vision caused by living so far past the equator??? :laughing: :laughing:

Cabin fever in September....?

 

[grsthegreat]

Cabin fever in September....?

But hes in Canada, and i believe hes already in Winter HEHE. Probably 20" of snow up there already:laughing:

 

[Mace Canute]

No snow here but we have had frost!

Robert~ That's the cat's a**...errr...meow! I started to go through the pics, then wondered just how many pages there were. Turns out there are 2182 pages! Just for the heck of it, I went to the very last page and they had one that was close and it turned out to be a fungus infested fly! I'm quite sure now that was what it was, but in the early stages where the fungus hadn't had time to really grow and get all fuzzy looking. Swear to god it looked just like the fly's abdomen itself was white! Here's a couple of the site's pics...