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ИНО, 15.05.2016 13:57

April 10 of this year found on the sidewalk is such an impressive size female T-shirt, probably Meloe proscarabaeus.

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For two weeks, she ate carrots and dug coconut substrate, after which she died safely. And today, on May 15, I see that the entire edge of the table closest to the window and, especially, the objects protruding behind it are covered with a strange orange substance, which, upon closer examination, turned out to be a lot of small (about one and a half mm) triungulins, which freely seeped through the ventilation holes of the tray in which their mother was kept.

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I used to think that our largest abscess and triunugulina should have the appropriate size, but everything turned out exactly the opposite. I soon found out that a couple of dozen of them were already on me. This was dealt with mercilessly. But what about the rest? Throw it out the window? Or is there a chance to grow at least a few? None of those present have such experience or references to the relevant literature? I have a lot of anthophore nests on my balcony now, although they are all buried, and I have little idea how to introduce triunuglins. Or can they just be fed with old bee stalk and honey?

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16.05.2016 22:10, ИНО

The chances are small, for each larva, but they themselves are up to a fig or more, so the cumulative probability (that at least one will survive) I think will not be so low. I just wish I knew where to start. Have you ever seen any publications on this topic? So far, I've started by sticking a bunch of triungulins on a stick in the last open anthophora hole on the balcony. But in fact, there are so many cells buried there this year that there are more than a dozen T-shirts enough. I just don't know how to dig them up without mixing the food with the earth.

M. variegatus has never come across me (I would remember this), I can't say for sure about M. cicatricosus, perhaps I have met it, but I confused it with proscarabeus. By the way, this time I'm not confusing? But in any case, this female captured in the photo is probably the largest that I have ever met. And what size do those two grow, really more than 4 cm?