Sarcophagidae - Flesh Flies

This is an overwhelmingly a terrestrial group, but the species of Fletcherimyia Townsend and one species of Sarcophaga Meigen are associated with pitcher plants (Sarracenia). Fletcherimyia larvae are borrowers that mine the bases of pitcher plants, scavaging the trapped remains of drowned invertebrates. Of this principally southeastern genus, one species approaches our area.

Fletcherimyia Townsend, 1917 (=Blaesoxipha, in part)

Fletcherimyia fletcheri (Aldrich), 1916 Sarcophaga - NJ-MB

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