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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #390 on: March 23, 2011, 10:48:09 PM »
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #391 on: March 23, 2011, 11:15:49 PM »
First narcissus flies spotted (and killed) today.

It was so warm today Narcissus flies came to mind.

I'm not at all confident I would spot a narcissus fly.  I don't suppose anyone could manage to catch one and photograph it before dispatching it?

Mark has photos. He's posted them somewhere on here before.
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #392 on: March 23, 2011, 11:17:28 PM »
First narcissus flies spotted (and killed) today.

It was so warm today Narcissus flies came to mind.

I'm not at all confident I would spot a narcissus fly.  I don't suppose anyone could manage to catch one and photograph it before dispatching it?


 There are several  whole threads Alan:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1850.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=204.0

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4405.0

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3690.0

 http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4297.0    Lesser Narcissus fly
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #393 on: March 23, 2011, 11:18:29 PM »
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Hello Ru, welcome to the Forum.  Good to see your galanthus looking good in the Ukraine.  8)
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #394 on: March 24, 2011, 06:30:20 AM »
I'm not at all confident I would spot a narcissus fly.  I don't suppose anyone could manage to catch one and photograph it before dispatching it?


 There are several  whole threads Alan:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1850.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=204.0

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4405.0

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3690.0

 http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4297.0    Lesser Narcissus fly

Thanks Maggi, but I don't feel any more confident.  The large narcissus fly looks so like a bee that I'm not sure I could distinguish it.  The small narcissus fly looks like a small nondescript fly.  Apparently the sound they make in flight is very distinctive and easily recognised once you've heard it - but I never have.  I have never yet found a bulb with a narcissus fly larva in it so I don't even know if it is a problem in these parts.  Perhaps I need a recording of the sound they make rather than a photograph?

A few weeks ago I found two swift moth larvae in a pot and put them in a small tub intending to take photographs later.  They 'ran' round and round the base of the tub and when they met one would try to take a bite out of the other so the result was that they fought each other to death in under an hour.  For all I know they would be equally aggressive towards other competitors like narcissus fly larvae and so I only suffer from the one form of larvae and not both. 
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #395 on: March 24, 2011, 07:04:54 AM »

 Hello Ru, welcome to the Forum.  Good to see your galanthus looking good in the Ukraine.  8)
Thank you Maggi. you have a remarkable forum. On results a journey there are many pictures to Crimea ;). For me and my friends from Odessa and Moscow. If there will be it you interestingly, we will do a report in the section of "Travel / Places to Visit"
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #396 on: March 24, 2011, 08:20:39 AM »
Hello Ru,

Welcome to the forum and thank you for the interesting G. plicatus with the good markings.

Photographs of your travels would be very interesting and most welcome.

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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #397 on: March 24, 2011, 09:13:32 AM »
Thank you Maggi. you have a remarkable forum. On results a journey there are many pictures to Crimea ;). For me and my friends from Odessa and Moscow. If there will be it you interestingly, we will do a report in the section of "Travel / Places to Visit"

Yes, please Ru :) :)
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #398 on: March 24, 2011, 09:52:17 AM »
Lovely galanthus Ru, I too would be  delighted to see reports of your journeys.  It would be very interesting :)
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #399 on: March 24, 2011, 10:23:42 AM »
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Thanks Maggi, but I don't feel any more confident.  The large narcissus fly looks so like a bee that I'm not sure I could distinguish it.  The small narcissus fly looks like a small nondescript fly.  Apparently the sound they make in flight is very distinctive and easily recognised once you've heard it - but I never have.  I have never yet found a bulb with a narcissus fly larva in it so I don't even know if it is a problem in these parts.  Perhaps I need a recording of the sound they make rather than a photograph?

 Somewhere in all those links is another link... to a recording of the sound... I think it is on Hagens website.... I'll check later for theexact location if you don't find it first.....
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #400 on: March 24, 2011, 10:25:07 AM »

Thank you Maggi. you have a remarkable forum. On results a journey there are many pictures to Crimea ;). For me and my friends from Odessa and Moscow. If there will be it you interestingly, we will do a report in the section of "Travel / Places to Visit"

A report of your travels would indeed be good to have, Ru, thank you! We are hungry here for pictures  to show us all sorts of wildflowers  in nature.


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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #401 on: March 24, 2011, 10:31:31 AM »
Somewhere in all those links is another link... to a recording of the sound... I think it is on Hagens website.... I'll check later for theexact location if you don't find it first.....

Like a bluebottle on speed....

http://www.garten-in-den-wiesen.de/bilder/galanthus/narzissenfliege/DSCN0003.WAV

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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #402 on: March 24, 2011, 10:37:51 AM »
The very one, Malcolm, thanks.

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.....thought for a minute that you were describing your actions in finding the link so fast....... :-X ;)
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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #403 on: March 24, 2011, 11:32:27 AM »
As usual in each year are my last snowdrops flowering my Galanthus platyphyllus  :D

I have groups from two different locations in Georgia - but both flowering in same time :

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Re: Galanthus March 2011
« Reply #404 on: March 24, 2011, 01:07:20 PM »
Lieber Hans,

schöne Bilder! They look fantastic!

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