Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Drosophila larvae/puparia at my balcony
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 06-07-2006 10:51
#1
July 06, 2006.
The adults were presented in my thread:
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=2235
I think that Drosophila cf. repleta were more numerous.
Size 2-3mm, almost swimming on the substrate.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 06-07-2006 10:52
#2
These were leaving the substrate, ready to pupate.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 06-07-2006 10:53
#3
The puparium, size 2-3mm, too.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-07-2006 11:19
#4
Just let us know when adults emerge which of the species it was. ;)
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 06-07-2006 11:48
#5
OK - I hope I'll be able to protect them from my (female) kin ;)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-07-2006 11:52
#6
:o From eating them? :o
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 06-07-2006 12:27
#7
No :o (they would rather make me taste the stuff, most of my activities with 6-legged creatures is such a nuisance for them :(), from trying to get rid of them - they are anxious whether the winged plague will spread. Currently they simply don't like the smell.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 13-07-2006 02:44
#8
Yesterday some flies have emerged. The vast majority was smaller D. cf. melanogaster with just a few bigger D. cf. repleta (hydei).
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 13-07-2006 02:45
#9
Another view + head.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 13-07-2006 02:48
#10
Well maybe it's more than one species or males/females (dark spots on abdomen are different, and some have dark bristles on tarsi I).
The bigger fly.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 13-07-2006 09:40
#11
The top set of adults are a species of the
Drosophila melanogaster group (first two pictures of females, next series of males), the bottom is
D. repleta. Note the palish spots lateral on the abdomen and the somewhat darked apex of the first costal section.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 13-07-2006 09:53
#12
OK thanks a lot Paul. Strange, I remember that D. repleta were more numerous than D. melanogaster among the progenitors, while the situation is contrary among the spawn.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 13-07-2006 10:12
#13
a. Maybe more flies will emerge.
D. repleta is a larger species and may requie more time for development.
b. The substrate was less suitable for development of the
D. repleta larvae. Even the presence of many
D. 'melanogaster' larvae may make the substrate unsuitable.
c. Maybe adults of
D. repleta were there but did not oviposit.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 13-07-2006 12:47
#14
Eye C - thanks Paul