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There are 6 different kinds of spear-winged fly larvae and they are shaped like wood lice. They have flat backs and 2 pairs of bristles on their heads. They live on the ground, amongst dead leaves, or in dung or rotting vegetation. They can even be found among the leaves of Brussels sprouts (Brassica oleracea) or white beets, especially in wet weather. The larvae feed on fungal threads (hyphae), algal cells, pollen, soil particles and substrates, which t...
>> Flies -> Spear-winged flies
..., rotting meat or faeces can be found. The adults often sit on trees, shrubs and herbaceous flowering plants, where they feed on nectar, sweet plant juices, ripe fruit juice or honeydew from aphids. However they also like the protein-rich fluid from dung or carrion. Some of the adult flies overwinter.
>> Flies -> Flesh-fly -> Grey fleshfly
Female Scatopsidae lay their eggs on decaying animals or vegetable waste and can thus be found on compost heaps, dung, in toilets, on garbage heaps and so on. They also often appear on or in buildings such as dwellings, sheds or storage facilities. When they appear en masse, they can make food supplies inedible due to germs and impurities such as animals and human ...
>> Mosquitoes -> Dung midges
... They prefer to live on roadsides, embankments or sand pits. Sandy or loamy soils, suitable for nesting, are of particular interest. Field digger wasps, and their brood, feed on flies. In addition, they seek out Umbelliferae or animal faeces (eg cow dung). When the field digger wasp sees a fly, it sneaks up, jumps on it and may fall with it to the ground. There, it paralyzes the fly and transports it to the nest. It may also happen that the field digger wasp does not paralyze the caught fly, but ‘kn...
>> Wasps -> sphecoid wasps -> Field Digger Wasp

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