Fungus Beetle Combat 1

Forked Fungus Beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus). This scene takes place on the bottom of a fungal bracket in the woods of Mountain Lake Biological Station. Here a small horned male is courting a female (bottom right). A much larger male tries to use his clypeal horns to remove to courting male from the female's back. The video is at 10x speed. For more information please visit: http://faculty.virginia.edu/vaformica/Research.html

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Science & Technology

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• Beetle
• fight
• courtship