Apiocera laying eggs

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Fred found an Apiocera fly laying eggs in soft sand. Located on the flood plain of Mortlock River East Branch, Cunderdin - 160 km east of Perth. These were flying, feeding and resting on small rises of warm, dry, mottled sand on the saline river bed.When she had finished, she brushed her hind legs to rearrange the sand over the hole where she had laid her eggs. Photo: Jean