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Strange green larva >> SYRPHID!!
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Posted on 21-10-2008 11:25
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Hello!

I am courious to know what kind of grub or larva fed on rhubarb in my garden. It has a trunk-like appendage at the upper(?) end of it and it is surrounded by some small cryptic creatures (aphid larvae?) and mysterious jellied bolbs. Few mm long.

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Greetings, Tomi
 
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Syrphidae
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ShockShock Thank you! I have never seen such a larva so far!
Greetings, Tomi
 
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Hello,

According to Rotheray, it could be Epistrophe eligans. The upper brownish appendices are the posterior respiratory tubes, that is the tail. The head is at the other end.
Pierre Duhem
 
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Thanks a lot Pierre for the addendum!
Greetings, Tomi
 
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