Natural History Photographs


Parasitic interactions among animals


Endoparasites: Strepsiptera

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Stylops melittae
on Andrena carantonica
Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 3 April 2011. Stylopized female.
Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 27 March 2011.
Male copulating with female in abdomen of the bee.
Stylops melittae
on Andrena fulva
Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 14 April 2013.
Stylopized female.
Xenos vesparum on Polistes nimpha
Millau (Aveyron), France; 24 July 2015.

Female of Polistes nimpha infected by Xenos vesparum.