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What about the flies?

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Vorona, 27.06.2010 16:51

Please enlighten shuffle.gifme, I have seen many times how insects (diptera mostly, it seems to me) cling to the tops of plants and die. Here, for example:
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(The wind was strong, not sharp). It feels like something has come out between the segments-hyphae? Or something else? There were bunches of them hanging on some of the blades of grass.

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27.06.2010 16:56, Victor Titov

In my opinion, the fly was struck by a fungus.
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27.06.2010 17:05, Mantispid

Yeah, that's right, mushrooms are coming up!
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27.06.2010 17:45, Fornax13

Entomophthora fungus. Something is very active this year.

This post was edited by Fornax13-27.06.2010 17: 48
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27.06.2010 19:00, Vorona

Thanks!
I get the impression that we have a lot of this stuff on the bay every year... Do you know if the behavior of affected insects is changing, or it just seems like they are climbing together to die in one place?

27.06.2010 20:46, Mantispid

Thanks!
I get the impression that we have a lot of this stuff on the bay every year... Do you know if the behavior of affected insects is changing, or it just seems like they are climbing together to die in one place?

Quite possibly. By the way, there are fungi that affect (it seems) scutes and making them come together. The fungus then sprouts and builds a sort of shell over them. Thus, the affected scutes become protected from parasites and predators, and live even longer. Allowing the fungus to develop and spread spores.
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08.10.2010 22:28, EuRyAlUs

This year I have often observed this mushroom.

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30.10.2010 15:15, Arikain

Here is probably something similar, from Karelia. Also, until I read the topic, I didn't know that this was happening to them.
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Back in the spring, too, this fungus?
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Also, in the spring, I observed some flies with deformed wings, they could not fly, only jumped. Perhaps someone will be able to explain that this could happen to them. Did this happen when the fly came out of its cocoon?
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