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The World of Minibeasts

Beetles in Bags: Rolling

 

A male visits

After laying the eggs the female continues by tightening the roll.

A male comes along and pays a visit on the leaf, anticipating her to be ready to mate after having laid eggs.

....looking for romance....
Tighter and tighter the female packs the roll. Steadily she moves along the hind wall while in front, she keeps rolling the tight pack. 

If she had a break now, the packed roll could loosen.  

...but she has got a job. Her adorer is trying hard, but she has an important task to finish: making a home for her kids.

So his courtship remains unanswered.  

 


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Photographs by José Verkest, text by Maria Pfeifer