Ditomyiid fly (Symmerus sp.) pupa about to emerge
Symmerus sp. Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found barely projecting out of debarked section of American beech log in mixed hardwood forest. As I was photographing it I disturbed it and it retracted a bit into the bore hole. Unfortunately I had other priorities, so did not hang around to get shots of it emerging. Need to get back to the spot at some point and do a time-lapse sequence of an emergence.
Guessing the hole is approximately 1.5mm in diameter.
Single exposure, heavily cropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie and plastic cup diffuser.
Ditomyiid fly (Symmerus sp.) pupa about to emerge
Symmerus sp. Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found barely projecting out of debarked section of American beech log in mixed hardwood forest. As I was photographing it I disturbed it and it retracted a bit into the bore hole. Unfortunately I had other priorities, so did not hang around to get shots of it emerging. Need to get back to the spot at some point and do a time-lapse sequence of an emergence.
Guessing the hole is approximately 1.5mm in diameter.
Single exposure, heavily cropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie and plastic cup diffuser.