Foodplants for Chariaspilates formosaria, Chlosyne gorgone carlota, Eupithecia virgaureata, Idaea straminata, Lacanobia oleracea, Nacaduba kurava
Cane, J. H., G. C. Eickwort, F. E. Wesley & J. Spielholz. 1983. Foraging, grooming and mating behaviors of Macropis nuda (Melittidae) and use of Lysimachia ciliata oils (Primulaceae) in larval provisions and cell linings. Amer. Midl. Natur. 110: 257-264.
... Species in the genus are hosts to specialist bees in the genus Macropis, which feed their larvae with pollen and floral oils. They collect the oils collected from the trichome hairs on the flowers. It is the only example of a mutualism involving an oil flower and an oil-collecting bee outside of the tropics, and likely reflects a co-evolved association [James Cane]
600x867 (~110Kb) FINLAND: Ka: Virolahti, Virojoki 671:53, 12.8.2000, Photo © Markku Savela | 600x741 (~66Kb) FINLAND: Ka: Virolahti, Virojoki 671:53, 12.8.2000, Photo © Markku Savela | 500x689 (~37Kb) FINLAND: N: Pernaja, 670:45, 10.8.1996, Photo © Markku Savela |
923x952 (~99Kb) Finland: Nokia, Penttilä, 16.7.2006, Photo © Harri Arkkio | 783x1044 (~135Kb) Finland: Pirkkala, Haikanniemi, 31.7.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio | 815x930 (~101Kb) Finland: Pirkkala, Haikanniemi, 31.7.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio |
Foodplant for Acronicta auricoma, A. menyanthidis, A. rumicis, Anticollix sparsata, Autographa gamma, Cerastis rubricosa, Chloroclystis v-ata, Cleora cinctaria, C. cinctaria, Eupithecia centaureata, E. subfuscata, E. subfuscata, Euplexia lucipara, Lacanobia oleracea, Melanchra persicariae, Monochroa conspersella, Orthosia gracilis
825x1100 (~195Kb) Finland, Espoo, Viiskorpi, 7.7.2005 (cultivated), Photo © Harri Arkkio Lysimachia punctata det. Vesa Järvinen |
998x1280 (~106Kb) Finland, Espoo, Viiskorpi, 7.7.2005 (cultivated), Photo © Harri Arkkio Lysimachia punctata det. Vesa Järvinen |
562x748 (~68Kb) The Katun' River right bank netween the villages Srostki and Chuiskii, Altaiskii Krai Province, West Siberia, Russia. 7th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin | 800x556 (~128Kb) FINLAND: Ka: Virolahti, Virojoki 671:53, 5.8.2000 (cultiv.), Photo © Markku Savela | 800x604 (~69Kb) FINLAND: Ka: Virolahti, Virojoki 671:53, 5.8.2000 (cultiv.), Photo © Markku Savela |
783x1044 (~137Kb) Finland: Hamina, Salmenkylä, 23.7.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio | 810x1035 (~128Kb) Finland: Hamina, Salmenkylä, 23.7.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio |
Foodplant for Acronicta auricoma, A. euphorbiae, Autographa gamma
Foodplant for Papaipema lysimachiae
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