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Ceratopogonidae sp.
Small yellowish with hooks at the end.
Watery mud.
I had left a small plastic vessel with a bit of soil and water outsiede. And after a while it was full of these creatures. They are actively living in the watery mud.
Spotted on Sep 14, 2013
Submitted on Sep 14, 2013
17 Comments
Yes, they really are! :) and now we will have some kind of clues about what is living in the muddy water :)
awesome links.
it sure will! :))
Cool and that website looks nice. Will be really useful in the future :)
actually, I wasn't the one who did it :(
I was helped by a professor from my university :) (the smartest entomologist I know :) )
But what I did myself is - I found this -> http://www.nwnature.net/macros/diptera.h...
:D they eat decaying organic matter, I think I'm still fresh enough, but soon they will turn into really thirsty blood-sucking creatures.. :)
Cool you did it, should have put your finger :)
These are biting midges!
lucky me :D
Thank you Faredin and Jemma! :) It surely is something like that, now I have to take a close look and find the most similar! :)
Check this link it has a few similar as this one but it's hard to see which one since it's hard to see the details: http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Water_Q...
Faredin gave a good clue . Could be midge larva,
http://www.onlinefishinglog.com/blog/21/...
I also have no idea! :D but someday I will :)
No, Jemma, they are not! ;)
I don't have much idea about this but they could be some sort of mosquito or midge larvae.
These are segmented. Puzzling?!
And I added third picture :) This is how they look in their habitat.
I added one more picture (this is how the "tail" with hooks looks through the microscope) :)
no, this picture is not taken through microscope, but it is on a microscope glass slide :)
it was less than 1 cm (much less) :) any ideas?
Nice one, did you use a microscope? How long is it?