Re: Purple sedum with strange beetles.

Well in Hungary is is held, that moth are those butterflyies who are usually
fly at night. But there are also some, which are pests.Unfortunately my mails
are downloaded to my computer at home at the weekends, but I may ask next week
the Entomology Department in the Horticultural University to help identify
this Lepidoptera...With Best Regards,Janos, Z5, Hungary
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Elk|ldve: 2006.09.03  16:50
Tima: Re: Purple sedum with strange beetles.On 9/3/06 4:19 AM, "Agoston Janos"
<">agoston.janos@citromail.hu> wrote:> 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.Dear Janos,I am curious. I know that there are a
number of flies (Diptera) that arebee mimics, but the only Lepidopteran bee
mimic I was aware of is one of theSphynx moths, Hemaris diffinis. I tried to
locate of picture of thespecimen in question so that I could see the antennae
better. ALepidopteran should have a thicker or feathered antennae.At best I
would think we have a moth mimicing a bee, but not a butterfly.Don
MartinsonMilwaukee,
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