#stylops

@lisawilliams30.bsky.social

11 months ago

The 1st female Andrena scotica of the year and she's stylopised! My #Staffs garden 30/03/25 #Andrena #solitarybee #bee #stylops

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Jill Orme

@ormejks.bsky.social

11 months ago

A fresh female Chocolate Mining Bee rests on the mottled greeny-yellow surface of an aucuba leaf. This is quite a large bee, at about 1.5cm in length. Her head, abdomen and legs are black with brown hair, and her thorax is dark brown with a rich chestnut-brown pile. She has a stylops - the head of a parasitic insect called a Strepsiptera - protruding between her fourth and fifth abdominal segments.

Dark Chocolate:
www.blipfoto.com/entry/335055...

#insects #invertebrates #bee #SolitaryBee #MiningBee #ChocolateMiningBee #AndrenaScotica #stylops #Strepsiptera #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders