ant bag beetle
Clytra laeviuscula, gladde zakkever, Ameisensackkäfer
The females wrap each egg with their hind legs in a ball of about 2 mm of excrements and leaves it in the vicinity of an anthill. The eggs are taken to the nest by ants, where the larvae makes a kind of tube that "grows" with them and serves to protect them from ants. They feed on the waste left by the ants, on their eggs and on their larvae.
ant bag beetle
Clytra laeviuscula, gladde zakkever, Ameisensackkäfer
The females wrap each egg with their hind legs in a ball of about 2 mm of excrements and leaves it in the vicinity of an anthill. The eggs are taken to the nest by ants, where the larvae makes a kind of tube that "grows" with them and serves to protect them from ants. They feed on the waste left by the ants, on their eggs and on their larvae.