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Unidentified at suppressed - 18 Jan 2023

Unidentified at suppressed - 18 Jan 2023

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Identification history

	Zosteria rosevillensis	24 Jan 2023	HelenWay
	Unidentified	18 Jan 2023	HelenWay

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A very large “fly” that kept landing on wooden posts and garden stakes, sometimes flexing abdomen into a C shape and touching the wood

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MichaelBedingfield wrote:

19 Jan 2023

Robberfly

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Sighting information

1 Abundance
18 Jan 2023 04:32 PM Recorded on
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Unidentified Insects Robber flies (Asilidae) True flies (Diptera) HelenWay Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

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25mm to 50mm Animal size

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