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Stratiomyidae, ripe eggs and hatchlings - Hedriodiscus vertebratus
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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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Contributed by John van der Linden on 19 July, 2018 - 5:01pm
Last updated 30 August, 2018 - 10:25pm

Moved
Moved from Larvae.
… John van der Linden, 30 August, 2018 - 10:25pm

Moved
Moved from Soldier flies.
… v belov, 30 July, 2018 - 8:18pm

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