Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution

• Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - The European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia,Yugoslavia. [1].
• Austria, Azores, Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) , Canary Islands, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta,Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey (European part), Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia. [10].
• Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Nizhne-Amur, Seaside, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• Length of front wing may be 1.1 and 1.4 cm. The color of the front wings are brown and gray, they spotted a fringe and black longitudinal strokes. Hind wings lighter front, with prominent veins. [5].
• The size is very variable - from 15 to 35 mm wingspan. The front wings are purple-gray, the male is slightly brownish. Hind wings gray. [11].

General info about Imago

• Fly bee bee moth far from dwellings, such as hives. [5].
• As a rule, settled in the hive, the butterfly had already left. [11].

Imago lifespan

• Several periods during the flight of the year. [5].

General info about Larva

• Often brought before the death of the hive. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Caterpillars feed on wax wax moths. [5].
• The caterpillars live in hives, wax feed. When the wax is eaten by caterpillars begin to eat feces of previous generations of caterpillars, butterflies and outputting more and more shallow. [11].

Larva lifespan

• Larvae live in the nests of bees and bumblebees in the intervals between periods of summer adult butterflies. [5].

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Trichopoda pennipes Fabricius, 1781

Tachinidae

Lydella stabulans Meigen, 1824

Tachinidae

Ancyla asiatica Friese, 1922

Apidae

Cyllodes ater (Herbst, 1792)

Nitidulidae

Purpuricenus desfontainii (Fabricius, 1793)

Cerambycidae