Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Psychodidae sp. infested with larvae..
Posted by bonitin on 09-12-2010 16:55
#1
Hi,
I found this really tiny Psychodidae sp. floating on the surface of a bowl filled with water, size about 1mm.
I fished it out and put it on the rim, then took a picture.
What I coudn't see with the eye, the macro lens reveiled like it is infested with loads of larvae.
Any idea which larvae they could be?
Thank you!
Myriam
Posted by bonitin on 09-12-2010 16:56
#2
closer by..
Edited by bonitin on 09-12-2010 16:58
Posted by atylotus on 11-12-2010 15:32
#3
is doesn't look like larva. Why not the eggs of this Psychodid? many species (all?) lay there eggs in water or very moist susbtrates.
Posted by bonitin on 12-12-2010 17:32
#4
Oh, how interesting atylotus!
So eggs then, it does look weird though how they look stuck on the outside of its body..
Thanks!:)
Posted by Louis Boumans on 14-12-2010 19:14
#5
mites are also common on Psychodidae, and I found quite some infested with large nematodes. But I agree this looks more like eggs, even though the eggs seems large compared to mothfly.
Posted by Gunnar M Kvifte on 14-12-2010 19:43
#6
They seem to me to be too large to be the eggs of the Psychodid itself; the eggs I have dissected out of gravid females have always been much smaller relative to the animal. Also, they tend to be on the inside...
Mites would be my guess too, although I have not seen this many on a single individual before.