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It;s the rainy season... time for all little maggots to grow up and dance around the light at night.
Scientists have found a new species of prehistoric insect, Cascoplecia insolitism preserved in amber, a tiny "unicorn" fly with an unusual set of eyes.
The fly, found in a 100-million-year-old chunk of amber from a mine in Myanmar, has a small horn on the top of its head with three simple eyes on top, in addition to two larger compound eyes.
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/28/tech-insect-unicor...
Photo: George Poinar
Episode 8, Part 1 of 2.
A parasitised Scale collected on 6th April from a bay tree growing in Hastings Cemetery. In the picture below you can see an exit hole from which a male Metaphycus dispar parasitoid wasp eclosed on 13th April.
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saw this unique very small insect and found it so beautiful. it isn't easy to photograph as it keeps on moving about. it is slightly smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser. anyone can assist me identifying this insect?
Mastigaphoides sp., Tettigoniidae. Jindalba Boardwalk, Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia.
A night flying Moth that can be seen flying from May - August.
Stour Valley path, Suffolk - May 2012.