Oil beetle with fly feeding between thoracic sclerites

Description:

Longitude (deg): -2.4. Latitude (deg): 54.0. Longitude (deg/min): 2° 30' W. Latitude (deg/min): 54° 0' N. Vice county name: Mid-west Yorks. Vice county no.: 64. Country: England. Stage: Imago. Associated species: Meloe violaceus. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: feeding on Oil Beetle. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".