Shore fly
January 1, 1970
breed in algae growing on soil, pots, benches, and other surfaces and the female disperses her tiny (0.1 mm) eggs on the surface of the plant growing medium [...] emerge from the eggs 2–3 days later. These maggots live in and just beneath the algal crust growing on top of the soil/medium, where they feed on algae, bacteria [...] stages and then pupate inside the final larval skin (forming a protective puparium). The puparia can be found on or just below the soil surface, and new adults