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Poor Muscina
paqui
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Posted on 19-08-2010 21:45
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This Muscina sp. (M. stabulans I suppose) was fallen in a pond (?)
- Picture taken in Segovia (Central Spain)
- 29-may-2010
- among crops

http://www.biodiv...49766.html

Miguel Yuste rescued her and took the photographs not expecting this
http://www.biodiv...49768.html

She was full of mites? Mites and many other insects' larvae?
http://www.biodiv...49767.html

Itīs a pity; in case they were mites, they would be probably aquatic, so attacked her when she felt, but those smaller bugs? Maybe some larvae had attaked her before and thatīs why she felt on the water?
 
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Posted on 20-08-2010 21:28
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I think the big mites are Parasitiformes - commonly found as "hitchhikers" on insects which emerge from dung or compost. They are predatory, but are not eating the fly - just hanging on to get a ride to another site. There are more than usual on this fly - so that could be the reason she fell in the water. I think the smaller bugs are larval mites.
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Posted on 21-08-2010 23:15
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Thank you very much for such a complete explanation (I didnīt expect) :)
 
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