Midge/Mossie

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Midge/Mossie

Post by lauriek »

Caught this little fly the other night while out slugging, I initially thought it was a midge but looking at that proboscis I'm now thinking mossie?!

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Post by rjlittlefield »

I agree, male mosquito. See http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... php?t=7462 for the one that caught my attention.

This one you're showing surely has interesting structure near the tip of the antenna. Reminds me of the elaborate stuff you see on some radio antennas.

Aside: an interesting word, "antenna". The plural is "antennae" for insects, but "antennas" for radio. :?

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Post by NikonUser »

A mozzie's antenna has 15 segments or flagellomeres (the lower fat one you see here is #2). The other 13 have a whorl of setae.

In females they all look like the whorl of 6 setae on segment 13 of this male.

In males the setae are very long and more numerous (>6) on segments 3-12.

In this male, segments 3-12 are short, #13 is very long with "normal female type" setae.
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Post by beetleman »

WOW....Great detail and lots of follow-up information from the group. Cannot ask for more. :smt023
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Post by Harold Gough »

A very striking and individual image. A text-book example, if I may say so.

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Post by AndrewC »

Nice picture but what do you mean by "slugging" ? :)

Defending your salad crop against marauding slugs or something more sinister ?

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Post by lauriek »

Andrew, the former! ;) We've just put a load of small veg seedlings out.

Thanks guys for the kind words and the info..

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