i have been working on fly of asilidea family i want to ask you how i can collect these insects specially from soil? and if there are more of them in places with herbaceous covering or not?
I am not sure, because I am studying on bat flies, they are ectoparasite on the bats bodies. So, I thing they habitat's is different with your study.
Glad to see your question,
You are presumably aware of the study by Melin, in Sweden. He found over 1,000 larvae representing most of the genera and species of asilids in that country. Unfortunately he did not give much detail on field craft. I can only assume he did a huge amount of digging in likely locations. In my very limited experience, I easilly ound Leptogaster cylindrica and a Dioctria by using a trowl to dig up arassland in February but in other months have failed in the samme pot.
Alan Stubbss
Amazing thing!
Thank for your information about method to collect larva from soild. In my knowledge, I also want to finding the most method to collect specimens to concordance in my studies as you do. If possible, we can discussion more by email. My email address is: [email protected].
Best regards,
Nguyen Thanh Luong
Hi,
In June, during field lessons with my students, I found several exuvies on the dunes at the Polish sea. They were in the sand near Carex arenaria.
Hi
study this link
https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4122.1.30
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S.Mahmoudvand
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