Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Any ideas, anyone?

Posted by mvuijlst on 31-10-2004 20:00
#1
Found a couple of these in a bucket of (really wet) garden refuse.

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Edited by mvuijlst on 31-10-2004 20:21

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-11-2004 13:24
#2
What was the size of the maggot. It looks a bit like the larvae of Sciomyzidae but the live in snails (mainly aquatic). Did you have snails in the bucket as well?

Paul

Posted by mvuijlst on 01-11-2004 14:11
#3
No snails in the bucket. Perhaps a couple of drowned garden slugs...

Size: about a centimeter, if I recall.

I really should have a tape measure handy when I take photographs...

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-11-2004 14:14
#4
You do not need necessarily need a ruler to show size. Something of which we all know the approximate size will do. (For a landscape photo it is always useful to keep one person in the picture...)

My first guess for the larva is a species of the Muscidae but I will dig into some books and see what I come up with.

Posted by Cranefly on 11-11-2008 17:36
#5
Sepsidae, Nemopoda nitidula (Fallen)