Black Oil Beetle Meloe proscarabaeus with Halictid bee Wienerberg, Vienna, Austria 18 April 2024
Автор: John Walters
Загружено: 2025-02-20
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Описание: Female Black Oil Beetle Meloe proscarabaeus digging a burrow in which she will lay thousands of eggs. Each female can lay up to 40,000 eggs in her lifetime of about two months. The eggs hatch into triungulin larvae (have 3 hooks or unci on each foot). They climb on flowers and attach themselves to any visiting insects. The successful ones are those which climb on a female solitary bee and taken back to her nest burrow. Here they will devour the pollen store the bee has collected as provisions for her young. On this occasion some of the triungulins clumped together possibly imitating flower heads? A Halictid bee possibly Halictus maculatus was seen covered in the larvae as she dug out her burrow. Wienerberg, Vienna, Austria 18 April 2024
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