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bee-fly-life-history · bohart-1960-heterostylum

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bee-fly-life-history
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The bee fly Heterostylum robustum parasitizes the alkali bee in the northwestern United States; it lays eggs near host nesting sites without distinguishing burrows from soil depressions, and the first-instar larva finds a host larval cell and waits until the host larva is full grown before feeding on it.
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the first-instar larva finds its way to a host larval cell, where it waits until the host larva is full grown before feeding on it.
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