Natural History Photographs


Parasitic interactions among animals
Endoparasites: Strepsiptera


Stylops melittae
  on  Andrena carantonica
Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 3 April 2011. Stylopized female.

Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 27 March 2011.
Male copulating with female in abdomen of the bee.


Stylops melittae
  on  Andrena fulva
Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 14 April 2013.
Stylopized female.


Xenos vesparum   on  Polistes nimpha
Millau (Aveyron), France; 24 July 2015.
Female of Polistes nimpha infected by Xenos vesparum.