Hoverfly/Flower-fly larvae (Syrphidae)

Photo by Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

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Field Notes

Description:

On July 28th as I was about to cut down the Tropical Pokeweed, Phytolacca, icosandra, in the garden, I found this worm/caterpillar like creature, it crawled side to side lifting the top of the body, the pink side would elongate come down and go forward. Picture #1 and #2

Notes:

On August 7th, they were strongly stuck to the branches or the leaves of the plant, they felt very hard to the touch. Picture #3 and #4.
On August 16th, there was only the empty shell, even though I was checking every day, I did not get to see what came out....Picture #5 and #6

Species ID Suggestions

Hoverfly Larvae

Syrphidae

Reference Link

Falco Sparverius1

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Comments (24)

eulalia rubio

Te copio el enlace a mi spotting del capullo de una avispilla. No sé si te servirá para encontar la ID. Abrazos. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/188906029

Mark Ridgway

Amazing Gilma. I must have missed this one. Not many Dipteran larvae have colors like this. Great find.

scope-multiage22

very colorful but sort of gross

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you, Adarsha, I got a common name so I suppose that is some kind of ID, I will edit when I search a bit more....

Adarsha B S

Gorgeous spotting Gilma! Hope you get an ID !

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you, armadeus.4, my pleasure.

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you so much, Falco Sparverius1. It looks like you are in the right track, I will check a little further, that picture is like mine with a bit of different colors. I imagine there would be variations.Thank you again

Liana

Fantastic spotting Gilma! Thank you for sharing :)

Falco Sparverius1

http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr249/falcosparverius/insecta/SyrphidaeHoverflylarvae.jpg similar photo of a Hover Fly Larvae, a little less colorful =)

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you, PieterColpaert. This creature lives in the Pokeweed and they both have amazing colors.

Ozbird

Waw really nice find and pictures Gilma! Amazing colours!

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you, Joseph CHIEF REDEARTH.

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you so much, Zariga. I am curious about what it might be also, I am not so good at ID's so hopefully a member of PN would.

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you, ScottHarte, it was odd, never seen it before.

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Thank you so much, ForestDragon, the coloring is fantastic, it even kept some of the color when it became a cocoon. (got hard on the leaf)...