B&W Photo Contest- Macro Entrrrrrrry #1 - Pyrrhocoris apterus

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Early in the spring and late summer bugs are often collected in large clumps near stumps, tree trunks, fences, woodpiles, always on the sunny side. For wintering, they are usually arranged also in dense clusters, somewhere under fallen leaves. They feed on fallen seeds of plants or dead invertebrates.

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Color black, pronotum and elytra with a red pattern. Hind wings, as a rule, are absent, but there are exceptions. He lives in colonies on the ground, at the bases of tree trunks, sucks plant juices, rarely small insects serve as food. In the colonies cannibalism takes place.

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Occurs throughout the temperate Eurasia, as well as in North Africa and North America, is widespread in the Northern Palearctic, is one of the earliest insects that appear in the spring. Has no economic value.

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Pentax K20D+Volna-9 macro

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