Cedar Creek
Natural History Area
Insects of Cedar Creek
Order DIPTERA
Family SCENOPINIDAE
(Window Flies)
(Table of Species)
Only one species of Window Flies (136 NA spp) is at all common in the eastern U.S.
Scenopinus fenestralis
has been collected on window ledges after coming indoors only to try to get out again and dying alongside many horseflies doing the same thing.
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Last updated May, 2000