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Photo#302124
A pupa??

A pupa??
Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
July 10, 2009
Size: ~6mm
Found this on a reed, Phragmites australis I think, along the edge of a rain-water retention pond.

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A pupa?? A pupa??

Moved

Puparium
It looks like the puparium (a pupa enclosed in the final larval "skin") of some kind of fly. See

 
Puparium
Safe to say it's a syrphid puparium, like yours.

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