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Eriothrix rufomaculata

Photographed on the Thursday 13 August 2015.
I noticed these flies most evenings in the summer resting late in the day on the grass inflorescences and would be typical behaviour for many insects, where they return to a favourite station to rest overnight and may have a good view of grass veneer behaviour (members of the Crambidae, see below) in the mornings.
A quite distinctive black bristly fly with red/orange abdominal side patches and silvery face. Eriothrix rufomaculata is quite widespread in Britain and Ireland where it fed on flowers particularly Umbelifers. They are parasitic on the micro moths of the Crambidae where the larvae develop inside the moths. Eriothrix rufomaculata belongs to the Class Insecta, Order Diptera, Family Tachinidae, Tribe Voriini and Genus Eriothrix.
More information can be found here:
http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/eriothrix-rufomaculata
http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/eriothrix-rufomaculata
http://tachinidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/55

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