ID-ing a larvae(?)

Nov 22, 2003 2 Replies

Hi, everybody,



Out on my concrete porch, between my plant buckets, where there is, of course, a bit of water and excess soil, I just saw some suspicious creepy-crawlies:



Medium-ight brownish in colour.



Body looks slightly ribbed in texture (like a slater/rolly- polly/pill-bug/etc.)



Maybe 1.5 cm long, and .5 cm wide for the main body.



Has a thin tail, about as long as the main body.



Didn't see any legs.



Sitting in blobs of several, but started individually crawling a few centemetres along the concrete. Crawling was worm-like, with that sort of wave through their bodies.



Sorry, I don't have any pix.



Any suggestions?



Thanks in advance...



Well, no legs points to fly larva of some sort. But don't assume that means they are baddies. Could be beneficial: some species of robber fly. I'm thinking robber fly, because that's what the weird/ ribbed/nubbly-with-a-sort-of-tail brownish fly larvae I've found before seemed most likely to have been.

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Down Under On The Bucket Farm wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.xtra.co.nz:

You'll probably have better results asking in sci.bio.entomology, esp. if this is an Aussie/NZ critter.

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