Contrasting Body Shapes - _TNY_9733
Here's a pair of beetles who, though they are sharing a nice and tasty thistle really don't share much in appearanace.
The long and narrow one on top which looks a bit angry is a male Anastrangalia sanguinolenta flower longhorn beetle and the small and round one is a Cychramus luteus, a member of the sap beetles, Nitidulidae.
The scientific name "sanguiolenta" means full of blood and ais a reference to the red elytra of the female.
Contrasting Body Shapes - _TNY_9733
Here's a pair of beetles who, though they are sharing a nice and tasty thistle really don't share much in appearanace.
The long and narrow one on top which looks a bit angry is a male Anastrangalia sanguinolenta flower longhorn beetle and the small and round one is a Cychramus luteus, a member of the sap beetles, Nitidulidae.
The scientific name "sanguiolenta" means full of blood and ais a reference to the red elytra of the female.