Apparently Common - _TNY_2670
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time I've managed to shoot this species.
It looks a bit odd and I was thinking it might be something a bit exotic. In reality, it appears to be the most common longhorn beetle in the country - a Molorchus minor.
The larvae of these guys feed on spruce, but the adult beetles are supposedly frequent visitors to flowers.
My friend who helped me with the ID, suggested I should cut a flowering branch of lilac or similar and take a walk into a spruce forset and leave it on the ground to lure some of these out. I definitely indend to try this, once winter gives up its grasp of Stockholm, Sweden.
Apparently Common - _TNY_2670
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time I've managed to shoot this species.
It looks a bit odd and I was thinking it might be something a bit exotic. In reality, it appears to be the most common longhorn beetle in the country - a Molorchus minor.
The larvae of these guys feed on spruce, but the adult beetles are supposedly frequent visitors to flowers.
My friend who helped me with the ID, suggested I should cut a flowering branch of lilac or similar and take a walk into a spruce forset and leave it on the ground to lure some of these out. I definitely indend to try this, once winter gives up its grasp of Stockholm, Sweden.