Wedge-shaped Beetle (Pelecotoma flavipes) ovipositing
Female Pelecotoma flavipes Melsheimer, 1846. Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found in mixed hardwood forest. It was crawling around on the trunk of a dead debarked borer-hole riddled hardwood tree. It was periodically stopping and ovipositing in Death-watch Beetle bore holes.
This species is a known parasitoid of Death-watch Beetles (Ptilinus sp.) and I believe the bore holes are those of Death-watch Beetles.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.
Wedge-shaped Beetle (Pelecotoma flavipes) ovipositing
Female Pelecotoma flavipes Melsheimer, 1846. Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found in mixed hardwood forest. It was crawling around on the trunk of a dead debarked borer-hole riddled hardwood tree. It was periodically stopping and ovipositing in Death-watch Beetle bore holes.
This species is a known parasitoid of Death-watch Beetles (Ptilinus sp.) and I believe the bore holes are those of Death-watch Beetles.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.