Thread subject: Diptera.info :: To many eggs loaded ?

Posted by Ben Hamers on 21-03-2006 18:51
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Good evening,

In one of my first posts Paul gave this explanation to a picture of a fly loaded with eggs :

"this is what we call a 'gravid female': a female with an abdomen so full of eggs that it seems about to burst open any moment."

This Tanyptera atrata-lady really did burst open.

Ben

Edited by Ben Hamers on 22-05-2012 18:01