Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A larva in a old stump of tree

Posted by lweit on 24-01-2007 21:19
#1
Hello
Can somebody tell me the Id of this larva (15 mm) find with many other larva (50) in an old stump of a tree, very wet ?
Perhaps a Tipulidae larva ?

Than you
Louis

Posted by Louis Boumans on 28-01-2007 23:08
#2
Bonjour Louis,

with such a sclerotised head, I would say Coleoptera, but maybe Lepidoptera is also possible,.

Louis

Posted by Tony Irwin on 30-01-2007 23:59
#3
Bibionidae - the spiky processes (and slightly thicker lateral processes) and well-sclerotised head are typical.

Posted by lweit on 31-01-2007 19:19
#4
Thank you
I've placed ten larva in breeding in my house ?

Louis

Posted by lweit on 26-03-2007 21:26
#5
Hello
News of this larva
A nymph is born the 15/03/2007

Louis

Posted by lweit on 26-03-2007 21:29
#6
The nymph a week later

Louis

Posted by lweit on 26-03-2007 21:30
#7
The 26/03/2006 a fly is born : Bibio marci (Linnaeus, 1758) - "mouche de Saint-Marc" in french

Posted by lweit on 26-03-2007 21:35
#8
Another photo of this fly

Louis