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Stem borer, Cryptotaenia - Melanagromyza eoflacensis
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Stem borer, Cryptotaenia - Melanagromyza eoflacensis
Chattahoochie Park, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
08 Dec 2019: Puparia overwintering inside dead stems of honewort, Cryptotaenia canadensis
Batch rearing
02 Mar 2020: Bugs out of fridge
18 Mar 2020: This adult

An example puparium:
Contributed by John van der Linden on 18 March, 2020 - 6:04pm
Last updated 21 July, 2022 - 7:30pm

Moved
Moved from Leaf Miner Flies.

First host record for this species that Owen described in his 2021 "Delmarva" paper.
… Charley Eiseman, 21 July, 2022 - 7:30pm

Moved
Moved from Melanagromyza.
… John van der Linden, 11 August, 2021 - 12:28am

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