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| Bees are vegetarians, mainly living on sweet plant juice. Pollen serves as their supply of protein. Some bees live in colonies. Most of the bees are solitary. Sometimes solitary bees live in small commons. The small commons primarily enable the solitary bees to rear their offspring together and temporari... | | |
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| Royal jelly | | Royal jelly is the name of a juice (secretions of the hypopharyngeal glands) with which honey bees feed their larvae and all of their queens. The whole brood of the hive are fed with royal jelly during the first three larval stages, thereafter, the larvae of the workers receive more ... | | |
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| While the adults feed on the juices of various plants, such as ivy, linden, and maple, the larvae live exclusively from the juice of rhododendron. This species came from America to Europe with the introduction of rhododendron, and has been common in Europe since the 30s. | | |
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| These insects prefer to live on grasslands, but are also found in shady deciduous forests and coniferous forests. They live off the juice of several plants, for example, Alopecurus, Festuca, Triticum or Dactylis. Stenodema laevigata reproduce once a year. The fertilized females lay their eggs in June or July on the flowers of the larvae’s host plants.
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| Kleidocerys resedae are commonly encountered everywhere. They feed on the juice (sucked out of leaves) from birch, willow and other trees. | | |
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| Their preferred food plants are: St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum), Geranium robertianum and Clinopodium vulgare in addition to various other herbaceous plants. They feed on plant juices or juice from seeds and fruits. | | |
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| ...ently and is found in various habitats. They occur in particularly large numbers everywhere where old, rotting meat or faeces can be found. The adults often sit on trees, shrubs and herbaceous flowering plants, where they feed on nectar, sweet plant juices, ripe fruit juice or honeydew from aphids. However they also like the protein-rich fluid from dung or carrion. Some of the adult flies overwinter. | | |
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| From April on, the larvae hatch. First they suck juice from the fresh leaves and the shoots of their host plants. The larvae (nymphs) are light green to deep green in colour and have orange-spotted antennae. In the 2nd to 4th larval stage, they swop over to herbaceous plants (potatoes, beets, strawberri... | | |
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| ...tilization female mosquitoes feed on blood which they suck from mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians. This is essential for the formation of the eggs, as the blood supplies the protein required for this. All mosquitoes also feed on nectar or fruit juice. | | |
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