Habropoda pallida

Step 2a The 1st instar larvae migrate and aggregate on plant (triungulin) to mimic the appearance of a perching female bee Habropoda pallida... 

A number of symbioses exist in which insects use natural products to parasitize insect colonies. Meloid beetles, which contain cantharidin (142) (Scheme 17) as a blistering repellant, spend one part of their complicated life cycle in nests of hymenopterans. The first larval stage is the mobile triungulin form. In yHf/of and other genera, these larvae climb flowers and assemble to form multispecimen aggregates with bee-like appearance and an attractive effect on male bees. In Mdoe franciscanus, the parasite of the solitary bee Habropoda pallida, it has been... 

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