crazy white worm

same in belgium

I found the same worm in the ground while i was digging. He is about 1 inch in length and the same pointer thing. Very acrobatic. Here are some photos

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p232/sidako/DSCF0008.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p232/sidako/DSCF0007.jpg

thanks
Amber

… Amber Thurecht, 15 April, 2009 - 11:17am

Moving to Asiloidea.

I think there is enough general consensus to move it to that level of classification. It may take finding more, and posting detailed, magnified images to eventually get a really firm ID. This is the first step, and thank you, submitter, for getting it started!

… Eric R. Eaton, 21 May, 2008 - 4:17pm

I also have a video clip of i

I also have a video clip of it moving

… footah, 5 May, 2008 - 11:44pm

Thanks.

Thanks for posting these here. I'm 'still' stumped. If you fail to get an answer here, you might also try posting to Diptera.info, which is populated with many fine fly experts. I still think this is a fly larva, just no clue which one!

… Eric R. Eaton, 5 May, 2008 - 2:55pm

'Wire worms'

Growing up (which you could argue I'm still doing) I knew these buggers are 'wire worms'. I think the name came from an agriculture book (dad's father was a farmer & he's passed down to me many very good books for identifying crop pests.)

While doing a quick google search it appears the name 'wireworm' only applies to larvae of click beetles (which this is most certainly not).

After doing some more search the best I can come up with is that it's some type of Stiletto fly larvae (Family Therevidae).
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/research/therevid/
http://bugguide.net/node/view/7015

… Jonas Insinga, 5 May, 2008 - 5:50pm

asilid?

I think this is an asilid larva. The only problem is that there are very few images on the web, that I could find. See this page. Perhaps one of the asilid experts will weigh in.

… Jeff Gruber, 5 May, 2008 - 9:52pm