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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Eupeodes » subgenus Metasyrphus (Eupeodes subgenus Metasyrphus) » American Hover Fly (Eupeodes americanus) » larvae and pupae (Eupeodes americanus larvae and pupae)
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caterpillar on milkweed with aphids - Eupeodes americanus
Copyright © 2010 Molly Jacobson

caterpillar on milkweed with aphids - Eupeodes americanus
Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
September 6, 2010
I found many of these small caterpillar-ish things on milkweed plants badly infested with oleander aphids. I also saw sawflies around those plants too. Is there any relationship?
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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 12 September, 2010 - 9:50am
Last updated 30 September, 2021 - 4:01pm

Moved
Moved from subgenus Metasyrphus larvae and puparia.
… Even Dankowicz, 30 September, 2021 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

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… Even Dankowicz, 10 January, 2021 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
Aphid eaters are in this subfamily. The trick is to raise them to adults; even then sometimes it isn't easy to tell some species apart. Raising them isn't too hard though; they seem to accept different types of aphids and pupate and emerge pretty fast. You may even get lucky and find some parasitoids.
… Beatriz Moisset, 13 November, 2010 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

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… Molly Jacobson, 27 September, 2010 - 3:58pm login or register to post comments

Predatory syrphid larvae?
Perhaps something in here?
… John Stanard, 12 September, 2010 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

 
yeah
Eupeodes americanus looks a lot like it and the photos I saw were on milkweed and it was eating oleander aphids!
also the ichneumon wasp was ID as a hover fly parasite,Diplazon laetatorius!
this must be it! i will wait for an expert's confirmation but i'm 99% sure this is the right ID!!!!
… Molly Jacobson, 12 September, 2010 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

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