Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Poor Muscina

Posted by paqui on 19-08-2010 20:45
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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?