2 Wingless Soldier Fly at Braemar, NSW
Identification history
| Boreoides subulatus | 14 Apr 2025 | Curiosity | ||
| Boreoides subulatus | 14 Apr 2025 | Curiosity |
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User's notes
This pair of soldier flies was on our garden shed. As I watched and photographed, a wasp briefly landed on the pair, dislodging the male. Later in the day I saw a similar wasp land on another female's abdomen. When the wasp flew away, a drop of turquoise-coloured liquid was where the wasp had been.
3 comments
Curiosity
wrote:
Yesterday
Hi, and thanks, GlossyGal. I was surprised and disturbed by the wasps attacking the soldier flies.
GITM1
wrote:
31 min ago
Very interesting. I have heard of wasps doing that to caterpillars and laying their eggs inside, but I never knew they did that to Soldier Flies
Location information
- Coordinates 150.474918-34.433726
- Maps Wingecarribee Local Government Area Braemar
- Places Braemar, NSW
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 3 Apr 2025 09:56 AM Recorded on
- Curiosity Recorded by
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Additional information
- wasp - Vespula (genus) Associated Insect
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
Species information
- Boreoides subulatus Scientific name
- Wingless Soldier Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1824.81m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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