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"content": "Today's Colorado bug for #Invertober is the ornate checkered beetle (Trichodes ornatus). These beetles are nest parasites of Megachilid bees. They don't look much like any Megachilids I know of, but they do look an awful lot like a bicolored sweat bee (family Halictidae). Megachilids are solitary, though some species will build nests together in aggregations. Sweat bees have a complex social structure, variable even within the same species. Mostly they're solitary, but sometimes they're not, nesting in huge semi-social aggregations. Sometimes they even nest near or inside the nests of other bee species.\n\nMy guess is: These beetles evolved to look friendly, and Megachilid bees assume the foreigner is just another one of those weirdo sweat bees that's always hanging around. As you can see from my drawing, they even have a soft fuzz covering that collects tiny specks of pollen.\n\n#Inktober #SciArt #Insectodon\nhttps://sb17.space/system/media_attachments/files/113/283/237/301/321/301/original/6f17cbb938a01961.jpg\n",
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