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Myathropa florea - Questions about egg laying.
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ukursawe |
Posted on 03-09-2023 20:42
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Member Location: Posts: 137 Joined: 28.06.21 |
Hi all, today I watched (and photographed) two female specimen of Myathropa florea with extended "Ovipositor", if that is the proper expression for the egg-laying apparatus in hoverflies. The first one was actually releasing a drop from the extension and I am wondering if that was an egg or a pheromone bubble or excrement or whatever. Is it possible to identify that from the picture?. Is currently the "egg-laying season", if that exists at all, for Myathropa florea (because the extension was visible on the second fly, too), or is it just coincidence? Greetings, Uli ukursawe attached the following image: [274.74Kb] |
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