Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Strange parasite(?) on Thyreus sp.
Posted by Marc T on 03-10-2011 11:04
#1
Good morning together,
found this strange parasitized(?) Thyreus cf histrionicus (thanks for validation/correction) on La Palma, Canary Island, Santo Domingo de la Garafia on August, 23rd, 2011 flying with its assumed host, Amegilla quadrifasciata.
I don't have a clue, what's protruding between T 3 and 4. Anybody else any ideas??? The bee seemed to me to be "vital" like the other unharmed Thyreus-specimen flying around.
Thanks lot,
Marc
Posted by Cesa on 03-10-2011 11:09
#2
maybe a nematod?
Posted by cthirion on 03-10-2011 11:23
#3
or reproductive bodies of the flower?
Posted by Marc T on 03-10-2011 11:26
#4
I was thinking of a plant-part, but how would it make to come inbetween the terga?
Posted by Sara21392 on 03-10-2011 14:32
#5
I think it's not a part of flower and I guess that Marc is right, seems that is between of terga??!!!!! Anyway so strange to me..
I'm very curious!!!! :o:)
Posted by cthirion on 03-10-2011 15:54
#6
Not sure that this appendix emerges from the terga!
A photograph on side?
Posted by Tony Irwin on 03-10-2011 16:16
#7
Looks like an anther stalk to me. Possibly the bee backed onto a stalk which came away when it flew off. In any case it's not a nematode or any other parasite.
Posted by Marc T on 03-10-2011 17:04
#8
Sorry, I don't have a pic from the side, but I've attached the more detailled tergal margin of the same pic. For me it doesn't look like an external thing (although it might be easier to explain ;-))
What about a funghi? (I can't really imagine either, to be honest - it's strange somehow, isn't it?)
Posted by Marc T on 03-10-2011 17:06
#9
Sorry, can anybody tell me, how to attach a further pic?
Posted by Sara21392 on 03-10-2011 17:21
#10
Go to "REPLY", not to "quick reply"!
The "reply" is beside of "new thread"! :) (under my comment, right side)
Edited by Sara21392 on 03-10-2011 17:23
Posted by Marc T on 03-10-2011 17:36
#11
Thanks, Sara - here it comes!
Posted by cthirion on 04-10-2011 11:47
#12
or a pistil ;)!
Camille