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 Unknown larva
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 09-07-2006 17:52
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
I have been out pulling up ragwort (Senecio spp) so the horses are not poisoned, and underneath every plant there was one of these larva. I have no clue what they might be. Does anyone know it? At full stretch it is 26mm.
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 09-07-2006 17:54
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 09-07-2006 19:05
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Tipuloid (leatherjacket)?
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 10-07-2006 12:44
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Paul I expect you are right. I realised a couple of hours after I posted it that it is probably a crane fly larva - felt a bit dim really for not realising it before. In the field I thought that it looked like a fly larva, but it was so big, and I couldn't think of what it might produce. Doh!!  Dug one up from under my garlic crop yesterday as well, so the little blighters are everywhere
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 10-07-2006 12:52
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
"Larvae have a distinct head capsule, and terminal abdominal segments often have long fleshy projections (almost like tentacles). Larvae are known for no more than 2% of the species". from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly where there is a pic. |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 11-07-2006 12:47
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Too late, if it turns out to be unknown to science - I chucked it into next door's front garden after photographing it. and I expect the one in the garlic patch has pushed off in a huff now that I have removed its food source.
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| Cranefly |
Posted on 16-11-2008 07:42
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Member Location: Shachovskaya Posts: 647 Joined: 17.09.08 |
Tipulidae |
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