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.


jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000