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cotinis

Date

April 19, 2008 01:03 PM EDT

Description

This flesh fly was associated with a Yellow Pitcherplant (Sarracenia flava) at Holly Shelter Game Lands in eastern North Carolina (USA), 19 April 2008. Apparently certain flesh flies breed IN the pitcher, which would be a deadly environment for most insect larvae. This might be a Fletcherimyia or a Sarcophaga.
Flesh fly - Sarcophagidae (Sarcophaginae) species
bugguide.net/node/view/110
Also posted at:
bugguide.net/node/view/1978019
HFDF!

Fletcherimyia - Photo (c) Rob Foster, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Rob Foster
pkann6's ID: Genus Fletcherimyia, a member of Typical Flesh Flies (Subfamily Sarcophaginae)
Added on July 1, 2021
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lukearmstrong

Date

May 31, 2021 02:54 PM EDT
Sarcophaga sarraceniae - Photo (c) Patrick Coin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
pkann6's ID: Sarcophaga sarraceniae, a member of Common Flesh Flies (Genus Sarcophaga)
Added on June 11, 2021
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cotinis

Date

May 22, 2021 01:29 PM EDT

Description

HFDF!
Flesh fly - Sarcophagidae (Sarcophaginae) species
bugguide.net/node/view/110
Also posted at:
bugguide.net/node/view/1977885
This flesh fly was apparently defending a territory around a Yellow Pitcherplant (Sarracenia flava) at the VOA site in Beaufort County NC (USA). I have seen this once before, also in the North Carolina Coastal Plain. Apparently certain flesh flies breed in the pitcher, which would be a deadly environment for most insect larvae. This might be a Fletcherimyia--see below. (Some Sarcophaga also breed in the pitcherplants--I do not know how to tell them apart.)

More information at:
www.nku.edu/~dahlem/PPlant/ppzflies.htm
"Living within the pitchers of almost all the species of pitcher plants in the southeastern United States (Sarracenia spp.) are larvae of some extremely specialized flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)....
The sarcophagid genus Fletcherimyia has 5 described species, all of which develop only within the pitchers of pitcher plants. There is also one species within the genus Sarcophaga...that spends its larval portion of its life cycle within pitcher plant pitchers. The larvae feed on the decaying insects trapped by the plant. While Sarcophaga sarraceniae appears to be a generalist, being reared from a wide variety of Sarracenia species, many of the Fletcherimyia are much more intimately associated with few (often one) species of pitcher plant."

Sarcophaga sarraceniae - Photo (c) Patrick Coin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
pkann6's ID: Sarcophaga sarraceniae, a member of Common Flesh Flies (Genus Sarcophaga)
Added on June 5, 2021
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rob21

Date

January 1, 2016 12:02 AM HST

Description

live inquiline in purple pitcher plant

Fletcherimyia fletcheri - Photo (c) Rob Foster, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Rob Foster
pkann6's ID: Fletcherimyia fletcheri, a member of Typical Flesh Flies (Subfamily Sarcophaginae)
Added on March 16, 2021
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What

Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea)

Observer

biancabowman

Date

June 2019
Purple Pitcher Plant - Photo (c) Rick Nirschl, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Rick Nirschl
pkann6's ID: Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
Added on July 8, 2019
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What

Mountain Sweet Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia jonesii)

Observer

maybknot

Date

June 2018
Mountain Sweet Pitcher Plant - Photo (c) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, some rights reserved (CC BY)
pkann6's ID: Mountain Sweet Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia jonesii)
Added on July 2, 2019
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