Do you remember this bug from the aquatic insect and crustacean expedition? It's been identified by John & Jane Balaban at bugguide.net as Calopterygidae — the larva of a broad-winged damselfly. I have played liberally with the white balance in order to display features of the larva. The full-size photos will open in a new window when clicked. This has been cross-posted at my main blog, meeyauw.
I thought sure it was a mosquito. Then I realized it would be very big and the bite would surely hurt enough that you would not pause for a photo.
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Now this is totally interesting. So that is the larva of a damsel fly. Cool!!! Have you seen the larva of a Ladybug? It looks like a little crocodile, well sorta. I find this facinating. MB
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing. Is this guy friendly, and is that you underneath him?
ReplyDeleteI would have guessed some kind of mosquito from Asia or someplace. Nice to know you are not being eaten.
ReplyDeleteThat's such a sharp close up of whatver it is, but i'm glad it's over there and not here!
ReplyDeleteWow, good macro.
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