Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae)
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Last update 3 March 2009

Photographic images of blackfly aquatic stages

    

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Blackfly Aquatic Stages

2 Simulium Eggs - 9KB 3 Simulium egg string - 15KB 5 NewEggs.jpg - 20KB 4 Simulium eggs on grass- 27KB 6 LarPupGrass.jpg - 21KBytes

Simulium egg mass
Photo J.B.Davies

String of Simulium
eggs
Photo W.H.O.

Newly laid eggs of
S. damnosum s.l
Photo J.B.Davies

Mature eggs of
S. damnosum on
grass stem
Photo J.B.Davies

Larvae & pupae
of S. damnosum s.l
on a grass blade
Photo J.B.Davies.

Pupa of S. ochraceum
on leaf in trickle down
a roadside bank
Photo: J.B.Davies
           
7 S. damnosum larva - 24KB 8 Larvae and pupae on a crab - 19KB
Larva of
S. damnosum s.l
Photo J.B.Davies 		Larvae and pupae of S. neavei group on the carapace of a freshwater crab
Photo J.N.Raybould		 Larvae of
S. rostratum
Photo: J.B.Davies

Head of
S rostratum larva
Photo: J.B.Davies

Pupa of
S. guianense
Photo: J.B.Davies
         
   
Pupae of
S. rostratum
Photo: J.B.Davies		 Pupae of
S. cauchense
Photo: J.B.Davies		 Pupae of
S. equinum
Photo: J.B.Davies

 

  		 

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Images collected by Professor
Doug Craig
on blackflies and their hydrodynamics
Dept of Biological Sciences,
University of Alberta
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 Animation of blackfly larva and flow patterns around it
Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
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Images of blackfly larval heads collected by Professor Doug. Craig
Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
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