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πŸͺ² Beetles

Yellow-legged Aleocharine

Aleochara curtula

About

A medium-sized aleocharine rove beetle whose larvae are parasitoids of fly pupae, a rare strategy among beetles. Adults are predators at carrion and dung where they also lay eggs.

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Did You Know?

The larva enters a fly pupa, consumes the developing fly inside, and completes its own metamorphosis within the empty puparium.