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Scorpions are known to reflect UV light on their surface and change it into a greenish visible light, spiders are not known to do so. Which Arachnids share this phenomenon with the scorpions?
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This specimen of Carabus intricatus (Linnaeus, 1761) raised and lowered the abdomen alternating and spread the cerci (?). There was no other specimen present. It was in the natural environment, in...
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I found this in a meadow in the Austrian Alps at about 1000 m above sea level. It is fixed on the stem of a plant of Compositae. The grub is approximately as big as the figures (eggs?) in the...
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I heard, this two species are often mixed up. Planthoppers and leafhoppers are not my special subjects, but I often meet a lot of specimen on my moth screen at night. The attached picture I...
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I found this larva in a marsh area of a renatured moor, near a forest. Germany, Lower Bavaria, 2016-06-18. Length about 12-15 mm Thank you very much for your help! Rudolf Ritt
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While attracting Lepidoptera with a light trap, this specimen of Coleoptera, Lycidae, was also attracted and I took a (unfortunately very bad) photograph. I determined it as the very rare...
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I think it belongs to Argyresthinae, but I'm not sure. I found it in Germany, Bavaria, wood at a southside leaning with oaks and Carpinus betulus, 2015-07-03; in the night at light, 450m Three...
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I know the work of: Lawrence E. Gilbert: Pollen Feeding and Reproductive Biology of Heliconius Butterflies. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 69(6): 1403-1407, 1972, I also know, that Micropterigidae...
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