Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae ID => Terellia tussilaginis

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 08-07-2012 21:23
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The female certainly feeds or looks for the better smelling plant (a burdock). Certainly larvae of T. tussilaginis do not live in thistle flower heads. This gal just "opened a wrong door".

Edited by Nosferatumyia on 08-07-2012 21:24