Re: Purple sedum with strange beetles.

Dear Martin,

It is not a bee. It is a kind of butterfly.
This butterfly is just acting like a bee, it is called mimicry. It is because
they can trick birds and humans too. The birds know well, that bees can pierce
animals and humans if they feel they are in danger.

After an affaire both people and animals memorizes the colours and sounds of
bees, so next tme they can avoid piercing...

But burds like to eat butterflies, which cannot pierce. So some of them are
started to copy the looking and sound of bees to avoid being the dinner of a
bird.


Bye,
Janos,
Hungary, Z5
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Don Martinson
  To: perennials-hort.net
  Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 6:40 AM
  Subject: Purple sedum with strange beetles.


  Here's a link to a photo I took of a pollen-laden bumblebee on one of my
  purple sedums.  But what kind of beetles are those next to it?  I don't
  recall having seen any like that before.

  http://home.wi.rr.com/llmen/bee1.jpg


  Don Martinson
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  l*@wi.rr.com

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