Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Very strange! (NL)

Posted by blaauw7 on 19-06-2025 21:56
#1
Very strange! Found today on light. Mid Netherlands. Multiple specimens. All with small red dots on the head. Mites? Anyone have any idea what this is/are?

Gr Dick

Posted by Philippe moniotte on 20-06-2025 05:35
#2
Yes, mites. Water mites , probably parasitic preadult stage.
WWW.ntu.edu/museum has a good article on "water mites and midges"

Posted by John Carr on 20-06-2025 19:20
#3
The fly looks like Ceratopogonini or Culicoides.

Posted by blaauw7 on 22-06-2025 15:01
#4
Thanks Philippe and John |t

Gr.
Dick