Plagiosterna aenea - Ovipositioning

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comments (8)

Calbost Niel

Lion

Wow. What a shot! Posted 4 years ago
1. Pudding4brains
  
  Lion
  
  Happy to be lucky enough to see it happening :o) Posted 4 years ago

Christine Young

Lion

She makes it look so easy. Posted 4 years ago
1. Pudding4brains
  
  Lion
  
  Ah, no worries Christine - I'm pretty sure she was feeling like a beached whale or some such too ;o) She did a lot of stretching, wiggling and wing lifting and all that jazz between eggs, so it was clearly not easy going ... have a bit of video of that but it's painfully low res :-/ Posted 4 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    Ok, phew. I feel less jealous of her now. She was probably also screaming (in a frequency humans can't hear) that she was surely going to die while birthing those eggs. But, I could just be anthropomorphizing again ;P. Posted 4 years ago
  2. 1. Pudding4brains
      
      Lion
      
      I'm right there with you anthropomorphizing it! ;o) Posted 4 years ago

Wesley Goorachan

Lion

That is such a spectacular photo! Posted 4 years ago
1. Pudding4brains
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks Wesley - lighting on the mother could have been a bit better, but I there was no time to fiddle much ... Posted 4 years ago

The Plagiosterna aenea

Plagiosterna aenea (Linnaeus, 1758), previously known as Linaeidea aenea, is a Leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) in the subfamily Chrysomelinae, native to central and northern Europe.

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Similar species: Beetles

Species identified by Pudding4brains