This is the Apple maggot Rhagoletis pomonella adult female fly, completed for FOR Sweden. She has a black body with thin white abdominal stripes, brownish legs, a red head with greenish eyes and wings with darker colour blotches. View from above, cut to white.
Half apple cut to white showing maggot damage. Browning tunnels and pocked skin. There are even a couple of little maggots in the holes. Apple skin is crimson and you can see the seeds within the sliced core.
Small apple maggot fly onan unripe bright green young apple. There are present moon shaped areas of damage from oviposition, unsightly lumps disfigured tge shape, and lots of browning areas. Under the Fly there's the biggest briwn bit of all, covering about an eight of the fruit
Overall completed watercolour showing the adult fly, both damaged apple views, and a maggot and larvae. The sheet has pencil written notes, giving verbal descriptions of both the insect and the damage it causes
The #Apple maggot Rhagoletis pomonella adult, completed for FOR Sweden, a gardening organisation.
They have "F" marks on their wings and their egg laying, plus maggot damage trashes crops
I loved painting the damaged apples, and the browning holes in the fruit.
#applemaggot #rhagoletis #sciart
