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Record no.:	9007
Feeding guild:	Borers, miners, and local feeders
Taxonomy:	Favorite flies, moths, beetles, wasps, and more, oh my!
Stages observed:	trace, egg, larva, pupa, adult
Hosts in Unassigned:	various plants

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the shiny black fly appears to dance as it holds its rear legs aloft while grooming — Image #: 9007-images Freshly emerged male adult *Melanagromyza* from *Aralia*. (0071)

orange elongate larva with head coiled and body stretched out in stem interior — Image #: 9007-survey/img/0010/S06 Slender lizard beetle larva in *Achillea*. (0010)

exceptionally long, thin larva, pale whitish with spade-shaped head capsule outlined in red — Image #: 9007-images *Pseudopostega* larva from *Monarda*. (0339)

the very long pale larva with rounded ends is stretched out straight inside the tunnel in the green stem — Image #: 9007-images Can you spot the agromyzid larva in this stem of *Parthenocissus*? (0359)

reddish beetle with rounded back and slender legs — Image #: 9007-survey/img/0109/10 Mordellid reared from *Bromus*. (0109)

pale transparent shell with flared hornlike antennae projects from dark brown stem surface — Image #: 9007-images Pupal exuviae of cecidomyiid protruding from stem of *Galium aparine*. (0247)

straw-colored, pill-shaped puparium rests in hollow stem interior with exit window cut in wall of stem for adult fly's eventual emergence — Image #: 9007-survey/img/0179/01 Puparium of *Melanagromyza eoflacensis* in stem of *Cryptotaenia*. (0179)

narrow larva with bullet-shaped front end and tiny black mandibles partially protrudes from hollowed-out stem interior — Image #: 9007-survey/img/000-extras/0207/010825-sm *Thrypticus* in *Elymus*. (0207)

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