was it the same one as in the photos posted?

i did not say Protista do not have a common ancestor. yes, all life on Earth has to have a common ancestor. what i meant was that in the case of Protista, not all the descendants of the last common ancestor are Protistans; the descendants also include plants, animals and fungi, which are all placed ...

kingdom "protista" is a paraphyletic taxon, which means they represent quite diverse eukaryotic lineages which do not have a most recent common ancestor that excludes the other eukaryotes, and do not truly adhere to phylogenetic classification. hence there can be no tree of all protistans ...

this is it; the best i could manage in this magnification. as you can see, it's not entirely green. this definitely belongs to order Diptera, but mosquito or something else, that i cannot tell. if it's a mosquito, it should be male. i just realised, since it's population has shot up (like sachin has...

hey sachin,
i stay in hyderabad. i saw, today, loads of green mosquitoes in a lawn in my college... this cannot be a mutant for sure.
i'll try to snap some photos and upload them soon, may be within a week at most.

identification help.
this looks like a hymenopteran...may be some species of wasp, not sure.

yeah, that's the one. thanks again.

hey, thanks a lot.
i'll see if i can find information on the species you've mentioned... and verify.
it flowered once. but the flowers were too small small..and i am sorry i didn't pay enough attention then.

gastropoda

thank you. but still no clues to what it might be. just an update this.. the plant is secreting some kind of exudate in drops at the nodes, leaves and stem of the growing part. resemble insect eggs but they are not. will try to collect them and see if i can get it characterized. might take a long lo...

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hmmm.. i can't find any reason why humans shouldn't have an inborn fear of slugs. you must be an anomaly, bugz. anyway, we have to make a lot of field observations before we can get to any sort of conclusion. so, for the time being, i am taking leave of the thread. will keep you people informed if i...