Saul-Gershenz and Millar. 10.1073/pnas.0603901103. |
Movie 1. This movie shows a male Habropoda pallida bee approach and contact an aggregation of Meloe franciscanus triungulins on the tip of a wooden rod. The bee then falls briefly to the ground, covered with the entire mass, and finally flies off with most of the triungulins attached to his body. There is a second larval mass 11 cm below the mass on the tip of the rod.
Movie 2. This movie shows a male H. pallida bee inspecting an aggregation of M. franciscanus triungulin larvae on the tip of a wooden rod.