Jump to content

File:Ceratopogonidae midge sucking Sphodromantis blood IMG 3045ss.JPG

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (1,750 × 1,050 pixels, file size: 1.15 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: While the Sphodromantis hangs upside down eating a honeybee, a biting midge in the family Ceratopogonidae fills its belly with green mantis blood. The midge is on the front right femorotibial joint of the mantis leg.
Date
Source Own work
Author JonRichfield

Observed near Somerset West, South Africa. Such midges (together with Milichiidae) often approach crab spiders and mantids eating honeybees.

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Captions

A mantid feeding on a bee.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

29 August 2012

image/jpeg

646cd2f88e1e2168b388abe28973de7c5c7e7b5d

1,201,236 byte

1,050 pixel

1,750 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current12:19, 29 August 2012Thumbnail for version as of 12:19, 29 August 20121,750 × 1,050 (1.15 MB)JonRichfieldUser created page with UploadWizard

The following 2 pages use this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata