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A common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) on a lesser knapweed (Centaurea nigra), outside our house in the end of July.
(Rødgul bløtvinge/ Prestebille på svartknoppurt, in Norwegian)
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Out in my garden I was looking for insects on flowers.
I spotted two Red Soldier Beetles on a Daisy. As I was observing them a Crab Spider appeared on top of the petals.
The common red soldier beetle is a medium-sized, narrow beetle commonly found on open-structured flowers, such as daises, cow parsley and hogweed, during the summer. Adults feed on aphids, and also eat pollen and nectar. Larvae prey on ground-dwelling invertebrates, such as slugs and snails, and live at the base of long grasses. The adults spend much of their short, summer lives mating, and can often be seen in pairs.
There are about 40 species of soldier beetle in the UK, displaying various colour combinations of black, red and orange.
Crab spider
The crab spider is so-named because its long front legs are arranged in a crab-like fashion, and it can run sideways. Seen between May and August, it is the most common flower spider and the females are larger and more often seen than the males. Females are most often encountered feeding on bumblebees, honeybees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies, and whatever other juicy flower visitors arrive, whereas males have a busier life climbing up and down flowers looking for mates, and eating the occasional insect and piece of pollen to fuel their quest.
Unlike many spiders, they don’t spin webs to trap insects. Their feeding strategy is a cunning combination of ambush and camouflage. Crab spiders are capable of changing colour to match their chosen flower, so long as it is on a spectrum between pale green, yellow, white and pale pink.
An early (5am) turnout with Camera Club colleagues to Jackson's Brickworks Local Reserve for what we could find. Not many specimens about other than a few Common Blue Damselflies, a 5 spot Burnet Moth and Red Soldier Beetles. Took the opportunity to choose backgrounds before setting up and taking the images. It would be helpful if anyone knew the name of the plant they were on. This is 8 images bracketed in camera then stacked in Helicon Focus Pro.
Common red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva).
(Rødgul bløtvinge / Prestebiller, in Norwegian).
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Photographed in Canatara Park, Sarnia, Ontario.
Photographed in Canatara Park, Sarnia, Ontario.
I found the A-Team being rather more intimate the other evening. There were literally 100s of mating Soldier Beetles.
Karstlehrpfad bei Zwingen, Schweiz
Red soldier Beetles continue their relentless copulation in all sorts of situations
