Fungus Beetle Combat 2

Forked Fungus Beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus). This scene takes place on the bottom of a fungal bracket in the woods of Mountain Lake Biological Station. During combat a male uses his two horns to pick another male off the fungus and throw him into beetle outer space (the leaf litter) The video is at 1x speed. For more information please visit: http://faculty.virginia.edu/vaformica/Research.html

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Science & Technology

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• beetle
• combat
• fight
• courtship