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High Heath.

 

Dull with showers.

I always open a few seedheads of Knapweed to see what's living inside them.

These are the larvae of a Tephritid fly, about 3mm long.

But I also found this exotic beetle larva, about 10mm long. A few Weevils eat Knapweed seedheads, but it might also be a predator on the fly larvae. You can just make out the jointed pro-legs, which identify it as a beetle larva.

    

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