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24-09-2007, 03:35 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Molesey, Surrey
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| | | Creature from the deep (pond)
Hi all,
Anyone know what the blue blazes this fella is. Dragged it kicking and screaming out of a pond. It's roughly 2 inches long. I assume it's a larva of some sort.
Cheers,
Adam 
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24-09-2007, 03:55 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
dont i have a deep pond if you call 4 to 5feet deep that is,hope i havnt got any of them down there,never seen anything like it befor perhaps its a knew species. |
24-09-2007, 04:05 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
I guess it's a beetle larvae of some sort? Whereabouts was it caught, I'm wondering whether it might be a Great Silver Beetle larvae.
It's looks very interesting.
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24-09-2007, 04:09 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near Peterborough
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
awww flip I had one of these last year what was it!!??? 
(off to look in book) I think it might have been a soldierfly larva you know.....
try a google image search on this:
stratiomys larva |
24-09-2007, 04:20 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Romford, Essex
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
looking in my collins freshwater life I cant see anthing 2inches long although i seem to remember reading a review on the book saying its limited withy dipterian larvae. I seems closet to the cranefly and horsefly larvae to me |
24-09-2007, 04:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Cumbria
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
I've had a scout through Collins as well. Definately 2"? The illustrations of the beetle larvae on
pp 293/4, Esolus and Oulimnius look similar but they are 2 mm. |
24-09-2007, 04:34 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
Perhaps a Horse fly or Cleg larva?
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24-09-2007, 04:47 PM
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
honestly do the google search and look at the fifth and sixth image looks good to me - obviously I can't link it directly |
24-09-2007, 05:21 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Romford, Essex
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill Catton  honestly do the google search and look at the fifth and sixth image looks good to me - obviously I can't link it directly | certainly does look like it. Must be one of the stratiomys larva or something closely related |
24-09-2007, 07:07 PM
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
I would say a dipteran Larvae, maybe Tipulidae but far more likely Stratiomyidae, Potentially could be S.potamida which has a larvae of a similar size, which lives in the mud usually around ponds but sometimes in them. Have you seen adults around of any species?
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24-09-2007, 07:10 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
Isn't this a rat tailed maggot a hoverfly larva or is it time I went to bed 
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24-09-2007, 07:14 PM
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No but i can see why you would think that, alot of Aquatic dipteran larvae look similar. 
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25-09-2007, 09:14 AM
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
Hi,
I've got a creature from the deep, but luckily she's at work at the moment .
Sorry, couldn't resist it.
Anonamax.
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25-09-2007, 10:52 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Molesey, Surrey
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| | | Re: Creature from the deep (pond)
Thanks for you help guys. It certainly looks like a Soldier Fly larva. Now I just need to find out which one.
Cheers,
Adam | | |
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