I can`t find a larvae identification guide online anywhere. This thing was cool. Looked like a large typical maggot looking larvae with an inch and a half long thin tail. Total length was about 2 inches. There were three of them found in the bucket. Really neat looking and any help on identification would be appreciated...
2007-07-23 09:13:51 · 5 answers · asked by Chafemasterj 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
rattail maggots! Very cool...the "tail" is a tube extended to the surface where there is more oxygen, in water that is often depleted of dissolved oxygen (like a scuzzy pond....like it evolved in...not your bucket). The aquatic fly larvae can live in the mud of very mucky ponds where many other kinds of insects can't. Larvae of syrphid flies.
2007-07-23 11:52:55 · answer #1 · answered by BandEB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they might be the larvae of something known as a "crane fly". The adult looks like a giant mosquito but dosen't bite people. The larvae uses the long tail as a breathing snorkel.
2007-07-23 09:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by Roger S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try a google or yahoo images search on "aquatic larvae" and take a look around. There are lots of sites out there with photos of many really great looking things.
2007-07-23 09:35:38 · answer #3 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-09 07:23:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be a crane fly larva.
Bittacomorpha spp
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2007-07-23 11:03:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋