Common red soldier / Black-tipped soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) nectar feeding and mating on Common hogweed flowers (Heracleum sphondylium), UK.

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Common red soldier / Black-tipped soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) nectar feeding and mating on Common hogweed flowers (Heracleum sphondylium) in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

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Size: 4303px × 3227px
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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