Diptera: Tephritidae - fruit fly
Myopites apicatus Photographs on Pulicaria dysenterica, Common Fleabane Host: Pulicaria dysenterica It now agreed that the the Myopites on Pulicaria dysenterica is Myopites apicatus and that M. inulaedysentericae only occurs on Inula hirta and I. salicina The white larva in the lower photographs is possibly Torymoides kiesenwetteri, a known parasitoid of Myopites |
Myopites apicatus (NOT Myopites inulaedyssentericae)
BC Alners Gorse, Dorset. September 2018