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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Twisted-winged Insects (Strepsiptera)
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Mystery pool bug
Copyright © 2010 JC Jones

Mystery pool bug
Spiderweb, Aiken County, South Carolina, USA
February 25, 2010
Size: ~4mm
Looks like something one of us redneck hillbillies would make outta spare bug parts. :-))

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Contributed by JC Jones on 26 February, 2010 - 10:02am

wow... amazing...
i slept thru the whole action... gotta run clean the driveway
neat find, JC!
… v belov, 26 February, 2010 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

a rare find...
and in a pool?!? Sounds safer then when I studied these guys as an undergraduate, and had to catch stinging wasps to get them :-)
… Blaine Mathison, 26 February, 2010 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

 
We get a lot of honeybees in
We get a lot of honeybees in our pool. One of our neighbors has a couple of hives. So, the possibility exists that maybe it got in the pool via a honeybee.
Or do these only parasitize wasps? I haven't seen a live wasp (other than parasitic wasps) since December.
… JC Jones, 26 February, 2010 - 2:02pm login or register to post comments

 
different...
strepsipterans parasitize different hosts. Some are in bees, but to my knowledge, Apis mellifera is not attacked by a strepsipteran (at least not in the U.S.
… Blaine Mathison, 26 February, 2010 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Can we get
to family on these?
… John R. Maxwell, 26 February, 2010 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John R. Maxwell, 26 February, 2010 - 10:30am login or register to post comments

Yes
This is a Strepsiptera allright!
Greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 26 February, 2010 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

Could it be
Strepsiptera (Twisted-winged Insects)?
… John R. Maxwell, 26 February, 2010 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

 
Reversed halteres
As far as I know the reversed halteres, front wings reduced to clubs instead of rear wings as on a fly, are diagnostic.
… John F. Carr, 26 February, 2010 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

 
I think you could be onto something there...
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 February, 2010 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

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