Found this hoverfly larva busy sucking the life out of an aphid near the top of a bamboo cane. larva about 8.5mm body length. They often seem to rear up like this with an aphid prey - suspect it's to stop the aphid walking off.
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Hoverfly larva with aphid prey
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Hoverfly larva with aphid prey
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Thanks SAsonyalpha wrote:WOW! Brian......................talk about ....JAWS!!....
What a brilliant set recording our violent miniature world:
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One of the reasons the smaller hoverflies are good for the garden
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Inspiring, in more ways than one - I have decided it is about time I could name a few more species and have ordered this book:
http://www.hoverfly.org.uk/viewtopic.ph ... 17de9a2066
If the book helps with this species I will post a name.
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http://www.hoverfly.org.uk/viewtopic.ph ... 17de9a2066
If the book helps with this species I will post a name.
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Thanks John and Harold for looking and commenting
Harold - not sure how easy it would be to ID them from a book but would be interested how it works out.
Always suprises me how few shots of them you see on forums unless I'm the only one that likes photographing them
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Harold - not sure how easy it would be to ID them from a book but would be interested how it works out.
Always suprises me how few shots of them you see on forums unless I'm the only one that likes photographing them
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LordV wrote:not sure how easy it would be to ID them from a book but would be interested how it works out.
At least I will have spent only about £15 on one of the two copies available from Amazon UK, the other being a "Collectors" at over £58.
Probably because they are less conspicuous that most other insects. As with many things, one you know what to look for, and where and when to look, you tend to find more, except, that is, when you are desperate for a particular shot! I would give Protura as a prime example, springtails slightly less so, of such absence/rarity from image search results.LordV wrote:Always suprises me how few shots of them you see on forums unless I'm the only one that likes photographing them
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It did, together with some more image searching. I cannot be sure, but I think it is the white form (mentioned in the book) of the larva of Syrphus ribesiiHarold Gough wrote:If the book helps with this species I will post a name.
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Thanks Harold for the infoHarold Gough wrote:It did, together with some more image searching. I cannot be sure, but I think it is the white form (mentioned in the book) of the larva of Syrphus ribesiiHarold Gough wrote:If the book helps with this species I will post a name.
Harold
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