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<body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;">Dear all,<br>My idea would be that the're not talking about Syrphids! There are members of the family Nemestrinidae in Southern Africa who have those extremely long tongue to reach the nectar in tubular flowers!<br>Look at this link:<br>http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/prosoeca/figure.shtml<br><br>Greetings, Gerard Pennards<br></div><br><html><div></div></html><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">> From: syrphidae-request@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> Subject: Syrphidae Digest, Vol 32, Issue 5<br>> To: syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:00:44 +0000<br>> <br>> Send Syrphidae mailing list submissions to<br>> syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> <br>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae<br>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>> syrphidae-request@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> <br>> You can reach the person managing the list at<br>> syrphidae-owner@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> <br>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>> than "Re: Contents of Syrphidae digest..."<br>> <br>> <br>> Today's Topics:<br>> <br>> 1. Longest Syrphidae tongue? (Bastiaan)<br>> 2. Re: Longest Syrphidae tongue? (bmoisset@aol.com)<br>> 3. RE: Longest Syrphidae tongue? (Gilbert Francis)<br>> <br>> <br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 1<br>> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:40:29 +0100<br>> From: Bastiaan <bwakkie@syrphidae.com><br>> Subject: [Syrphidae] Longest Syrphidae tongue?<br>> To: Hoverfly discussion list <syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br>> Message-ID: <4746055D.7000706@syrphidae.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br>> <br>> Hi again,<br>> <br>> There reached an other interesting Syrphidae question my email box where <br>> I can't answer right away. Somebody knows this by any change?<br>> <br>> regards,<br>> <br>> Bastiaan<br>> <br>> Here is the origional question:<br>> --------<br>> Hope you don't mind me asking this rather unprofessional question ?<br>> <br>> I have just been watching a programme ' The Life of Plants' by David <br>> Attenborough & he was showing a Hoverfly feeding on Nectar from some <br>> Iris's in S. Africa, apparently this particular Hoverfly has the <br>> longest tongue of its kind but its name wasn't mentioned ?<br>> <br>> Would you be able to tell me the name of this please as I could think of <br>> nowhere else to try ???<br>> <br>> Many thanks for your time in advance<br>> --------<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 2<br>> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:30:07 -0500<br>> From: bmoisset@aol.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Syrphidae] Longest Syrphidae tongue?<br>> To: syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> Message-ID: <8C9FB878422E780-750-3220@webmail-md03.sysops.aol.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> <br>> <br>> Hello:<br>> <br>> <br>> He is probably referring to a beefly, Bombyliidae, rather than a Syrphidae. Those are the ones with very long tongues.<br>> <br>> Beatriz Moisset<br>> <br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Bastiaan <bwakkie@syrphidae.com><br>> To: Hoverfly discussion list <syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br>> Sent: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 5:40 pm<br>> Subject: [Syrphidae] Longest Syrphidae tongue?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Hi again,?<br>> ?<br>> There reached an other interesting Syrphidae question my email box where I can't answer right away. Somebody knows this by any change??<br>> ?<br>> regards,?<br>> ?<br>> Bastiaan?<br>> ?<br>> Here is the origional question:?<br>> --------?<br>> Hope you don't mind me asking this rather unprofessional question ??<br>> ?<br>> I have just been watching a programme ' The Life of Plants' by David Attenborough & he was showing a Hoverfly feeding on Nectar from some Iris's in S. Africa, apparently this particular Hoverfly has the longest tongue of its kind but its name wasn't mentioned ??<br>> ?<br>> Would you be able to tell me the name of this please as I could think of nowhere else to try ????<br>> ?<br>> Many thanks for your time in advance?<br>> --------?<br>> ?<br>> _______________________________________________?<br>> Syrphidae mailing list?<br>> Syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk?<br>> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae?<br>> <br>> <br>> ________________________________________________________________________<br>> Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/syrphidae/attachments/20071122/179e7116/attachment-0001.html<br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 3<br>> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:59:41 -0000<br>> From: "Gilbert Francis" <Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk><br>> Subject: RE: [Syrphidae] Longest Syrphidae tongue?<br>> To: "Hoverfly discussion list" <syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br>> Message-ID:<br>> <BAA2EE790D828F4E8B262F17B3B0A7A307C1BDF6@VUIEXCH1.ad.nottingham.ac.uk><br>> <br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> <br>> I don't think this was a hoverfly. It sounds like Megistorhynchus<br>> longirostris from the Nemestrinidae, which visits long-corolla orchids<br>> such as the genus Disa.<br>> <br>> The longest proboscis of a hoverfly I think is Lycastris from the<br>> Himalaya<br>> <br>> F<br>> <br>> <br>> Dr Francis Gilbert<br>> www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg<br>> (+44)(0)115 951 3215<br>> BioMAP: www.biomapegypt.org<br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: syrphidae-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> [mailto:syrphidae-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Bastiaan<br>> Sent: 22 November 2007 22:40<br>> To: Hoverfly discussion list<br>> Subject: [Syrphidae] Longest Syrphidae tongue?<br>> <br>> Hi again,<br>> <br>> There reached an other interesting Syrphidae question my email box where<br>> <br>> I can't answer right away. Somebody knows this by any change?<br>> <br>> regards,<br>> <br>> Bastiaan<br>> <br>> Here is the origional question:<br>> --------<br>> Hope you don't mind me asking this rather unprofessional question ?<br>> <br>> I have just been watching a programme ' The Life of Plants' by David <br>> Attenborough & he was showing a Hoverfly feeding on Nectar from some <br>> Iris's in S. Africa, apparently this particular Hoverfly has the <br>> longest tongue of its kind but its name wasn't mentioned ?<br>> <br>> Would you be able to tell me the name of this please as I could think of<br>> <br>> nowhere else to try ???<br>> <br>> Many thanks for your time in advance<br>> --------<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Syrphidae mailing list<br>> Syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae<br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Syrphidae mailing list<br>> Syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae<br>> <br>> <br>> End of Syrphidae Digest, Vol 32, Issue 5<br>> ****************************************<br>> <br>> This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment<br>> may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system:<br>> you are advised to perform your own checks. 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