Mining Bee with Twisted-Winged Parasites (IMAGE)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena

Mining Bee with Twisted-Winged Parasites

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Two males of the twisted-winged parasite Stylops ovinae compete for one female hidden in the abdomen of a mining bee.

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Wolfgang Rutkies

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