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Stratiomyidae, ripe eggs and hatchlings - Hedriodiscus vertebratus

Stratiomyidae, ripe eggs and hatchlings - Hedriodiscus vertebratus
Cardinal Marsh, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
July 16, 2018
07/15/18 Females of this species observed laying large clumps of greenish eggs on leaves of emergent aquatic plants, mostly on bulrushes but a few on cattails too

One adult female

and a few egg masses collected, including egg mass shown in this series

Batch rearing

07/16/18 Hatchlings emerge from a darkened mass of "ripe" eggs (this series)

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Moved
Moved from Larvae.

Moved
Moved from Soldier flies.

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