3 Wingless Soldier Fly at Braidwood, NSW
Identification history
| Boreoides subulatus | 26 Apr 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Boreoides subulatus | 25 Apr 2025 | MatthewFrawley |
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User's notes
Wingless Soldier Fly love. Last photo shows female laying eggs. Lots of that going on.
3 comments
RogerF
wrote:
28 Apr 2025
Is this the same female . In which case what is the time difference between mating and laying?
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
29 Apr 2025
Different female @RogerF. There were at least a dozen different females on my front fence, only saw a couple of males and only this one interaction between female and male.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.792090-35.454501
- Altitude 682.0m
- Places Braidwood, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 25 Apr 2025 12:08 PM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
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Collections
72 Araluen Road MatthewFrawley NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Featured Other true flies True flies (Diptera) Insects Boreoides subulatus
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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