Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Larva/pupa on leaf 6mm

Posted by blowave on 19-12-2009 20:13
#1
Hello again!Wink

This was on top of a Camellia leaf on the west side of my house, approx. 6mm long, looks like a bird dropping. I saw it for several days but it disappeared after heavy rain. Pics from 30th and 31st October.

It looks like a fly to me, might be wrong though.Wink

Location, a few miles south of Lincoln UK.

Janet Smile

Posted by blowave on 19-12-2009 20:14
#2
On 31st October

Posted by atylotus on 20-12-2009 17:28
#3
doesn't look like a fly. The body seems too soft and on the right hand side it seems as if there is something like a pair of compound eyes in development. So I'll guess it is more like a Hemiptera/Homoptera.

Posted by blowave on 20-12-2009 18:52
#4
Thanks for the suggestions atylotus.Smile

It was because of the eyes I had thought it could be a dipteran larva, but I know nothing much about those.Wink

I would have thought the eyes were too big for Hemiptera/Homoptera, and as far as I am aware most go through many nymph stages from small eggs, not a pupating stage like this.

Any other suggestions welcomed.Smile