Fungus Gnats Online

While investigating the life history of the luminous larva, Platyura fultoni Fisher, in the mountain near Glensville, N.C., another webspinning larva was sometimes associated with the luminous species. This larva found very active and made a long, winding web consisting of a single main strand supported by numerous lateral strands. The web was not adhesive but when a very small insect touched it larva would move rapidly to that point and capture the incest by attaching strands of web to it. Insects above a sertain size were not attached. A single adult reared was identified by Dr. Elisabeth Fisher as Neuratelia scitula Johannsen of the family Mycetophilidae