Hydrometra stagnorum larva
Water-measurer, larva
This larva sucks out a midge pupa, that is hanging head down under a a duck weed leaf. (It is the
grey subject where the thin sucking tube of the Water-measurer is in). You can still see the
breathing 'horns' on the midge pupa. Further there is a very tiny, mite-like animal on the duck weed
leaf in front and a Microvelia larva on the last duck weed leaf. What the red and brown thing under
the Water-measurer is, I don't know.
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