Insect id help, great pic included

Discussion in 'Growing Organic Marijuana' started by Organic sinse, Jul 21, 2019.

  1. Thanks Brodman! I'm leaning towards it being good guy. With all the info on the web regarding problem insects, I would think I would have found a match by now if it was a bad guy.
    thanks again Brodman
    cheers
    os
     
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  2. That's a lacewing. They are beneficial. As larvae they feed of aphids and spider mites.

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  3. If thats a lacewing ill eat my pants. The abdomen area is all wrong and wings are too small.
    green-lacewing-adult.jpg
    Not a juvenile lacewing either
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  4. Anymore pictures? I ruled out fruitful due to abdomen shape and legs. Mouth pic would help also.
     
  5. Sorry these 2 pics are the only ones. Unfortunately both times I have photographed this insect, I didn't see him until much later when I made the pics big. These are accidental while I have been checking trichomes.
    Thanks for chiming in, any help is welcome.
    cheers
    os
     
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  6. I think I found it, its a Chironomidae AKA "Lake Fly"
    Chironomidae

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  7. My dad was an entomologist. He would have been all over this shit. The closest I could come up with was 'some kind of fly?' :p
     
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  8. That might be right on the money. That name fits a 'dry fly' pattern that's popular in my area, trout and grayling love em.
    Thanks scoob!
    cheers
    os
     
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  9. The silhouette view makes it tough to tell. Maybe some of the other folks will chime in.
    cheers
    os
     
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  10. hmm.... kinda hard to see. size? color? wings?
    on closer inspection, look at the bottom part there are two stubs where the abdomen ends. Could be an aphid?
     
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  11. No that is 100% skeeter - young just hatched no color yet
     
  12. Mosquitos hatch in water...
     
  13. yes and then grow wings and their bodies harden and gain color - this is the in between stage ......
     
  14. Yeah you are right, but when it hatches from the pupae its not green its clear and black.
     
  15. It does kinda look like one but the wings dont match either

    see mosquitos have these teeny tiny wings
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  16. That is just one kind of mosquito - there are several different types all slightly different
     

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