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

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 09-07-2012 15:48
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The fly could emerge from a seed brought on pants or dog's tail and then find a flower head more or less fitting it needed. Or a burdock was here the last year only and now is just a rosette. Terellia tussilaginis follows always AFTER Tephritis bardanae phenologically, as it needs fully grown flower heads rather than half-sized buds (as T. b. does)