Common yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria) on an oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus). This fly spends its larval stages in animal dung. It fee

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Common yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria) on an oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus). This fly spends its larval stages in animal dung. It feeds on other small insects and is used as a form of biological control in agriculture. Photographed in summer, in Lancashire, UK.

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