Insect identification?

Question

I found this Albino fly of some kind on my garbage can today, does anyone know what it is?

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Titan-XP/fly/p1050838.jpg

I live in Nova Scotia, and BTW the fly is larger then any other normal fly I have ever seen.

Answer 1

That's a s**y fly. Maybe you should capture it and put it in a bug book xD!

Answer 2

It looks like it's probably a teneral fly - meaning it just recently emerged from the pupal state, and its exoskeleton is still pale and soft while it pumps up.  It will probably darken and get more colours as it hardens.

At this distance, it's pretty hard to identify a fly to family - it usually requires looking at things like length of antennal segments, or the arrangement of cells in the wing patterns.  I would guess that it's probably a Calliphorid (blow fly) of some kind - based solely on the abdomen which looks kinda, sorty, vaguely Calliphoridy to me.  Maybe a Stratiomyid, but the antennae don't look long enough.