Diptera: Sciaroidea Cecidomyiidae - Clinodiplosis cilicrus A common and widespread species developing and feeding in old galls and on dead and decaying plant tissues in flowers, seedheads etc. The larvae are phytosaprophagous and do not cause gall formation The red larvae in the photograph below is a Lestodiplosis sp., a predator on Clinodiplosis cilicrus and other phytosaprophagous larvae

Clinodiplosis cilicrus
Cranborne and Holes Bay, Dorset. September and October 2017, 2018