Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Photo#1479690
Digger Bees and their guests - female

Digger Bees and their guests - Female
Limestone Canyon, Orange County, California, USA
July 1, 2011
Interacting with a colony of Digger Bees. They seem to be shooting something down in the Digger Bee nest, but if they are, it is not eggs because eggs would be visible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTHNxgnORn0

Images of this individual: tag all
Digger Bees and their guests - female Digger Bees and their guests - female

Moved
Moved from Anthracinae.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

 
Eggs and sand, right John?
...

Bee fly
Bee fly larvae parasitize immature insects in underground nests.

 
How do they do it?
I have looked very carefully at those videos, and they don't show anything big enough to be an egg going into the nest!

 
Throwing eggs
The flies hovering over the burrow from about 5 to 6 minutes are throwing eggs too fast to see. That's why the abdomen is twitching.

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.