Rare and Not-So-Rare Flies of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Matthew Petersen, mp13@iastate.edu, Iowa State University, Department of Entomology, 3222 Science II, Ames, IA

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COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS

From bc, April 22, 2007
I saw a fly that had a long black thorax and abdomen with transparent wings. It had two brown antannae with a little white stripe on each of them. Can you tell its species and some infomation about it?
From Angel, Student, Old Mill Midddle, July 6, 2007
Hello. My name is Angel, and I live in Anne Arundel County of Maryland. My mother and I were wondering what species of fly was in our house. Now this fly was rather large, far more bigger than a normal house fly. It had a lime green adbomen, and butt, with symmetrical black specks down it's abdomen. Usual house flies are a green, and small, correct? Yes, well this fly had orange eyes, and as I said it was rather large, possibly bigger than a wasp, maybe around the size of a bumble bee. We thought it was extremely strange, and rare, none we have ever seen before. And I must say, it was quite disgusting. Thank-You.