Bee or Brush? - _TNY_3271
Here are a pair of Eurasian bee beetles (Trichius fasciatus) enjoying a moment together on a thistle in Tyresta National Park, Sweden. Or at least he was. His partner was equally enjoying munching pollen off the thistle.
The bee beetle name is pretty self-explanatory when you see the colouration of these and the Swedish name "humlebagge" has a similar idea as that translates into "bumblebee beetle, but the German and the Dutch focus more on the fuzzyness as their names "Gebänderte Pinselkäfer" in German and penseelkever in Dutch instead means (banded) paintbrush beetle. Which approach is better?
Bee or Brush? - _TNY_3271
Here are a pair of Eurasian bee beetles (Trichius fasciatus) enjoying a moment together on a thistle in Tyresta National Park, Sweden. Or at least he was. His partner was equally enjoying munching pollen off the thistle.
The bee beetle name is pretty self-explanatory when you see the colouration of these and the Swedish name "humlebagge" has a similar idea as that translates into "bumblebee beetle, but the German and the Dutch focus more on the fuzzyness as their names "Gebänderte Pinselkäfer" in German and penseelkever in Dutch instead means (banded) paintbrush beetle. Which approach is better?