SOUTHWEST BUGS

Coleoptera-Nitidulidae-Nitops pallipennis-sap feeding beetle (B)

Nitops pallipennis

El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Coordinates: 31.697818, -106.282443
July 25, 2015
These sap-feeding beetles were flying towards a Fishhook barrel cactus, landing on the spines near the flowers, and quickly moving inside them to mate while bees were busily pollinating the same flowers
Determined by Vassili Belov

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