In 2010, a colony of short-necked oil beetles was found on the island.
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It includes two species, the red-striped oil beetle, " Berberomeloe majalis ", and the less flamboyant " Berberomeloe insignis ".
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Other butterlies include small blue, green hairstreak, chalkhill blue, Roman snails, heath snail and a rare oil beetle " Meloe rugosus " are present.
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When the host female bee lays eggs in its cells, the first-stage larva of the violet oil beetle eats the eggs of the bee, increases in volume and becomes the second-stage larva, which continues its development eating honey and pollen.
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As Bologna notes, it had long been known that the larval development of the red-stripted oil beetle was very different from that of most species placed in " Meloe ", so that some authors treated it within the Lyttini genus " Trichomeloe ".
परिभाषा
any of various beetles that exude an oily substance from the leg joints that deters enemies
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