Ant bag beetle Clytra laeviuscula

Features

Its length is 7 to 11 mm. It is an unusually elongated leaf beetle. Forechest smooth and shiny black, caps yellow-red with one black dot each. The wide dark stripe on both the inside and the outside does not reach to the edge of the lids.

Species	Insect
Living space	Bush crowns, Lake, Pond, River edge, Swamp, Treeline, Wet site
Size	7-11 mm

Description

Quite common on sunny forest edges and on dry stony soils. Adults feed on the leaves of willows and other deciduous trees and herbs. The female, near the forest ant anthill, individually packs the eggs in a shell made of scaly pieces of excrement. What mm large formations resemble cones. It drops these envelopes in front of the anthill and so the ants can take it to the anthill as a building material. The developed larva builds a house out of scaly excrement, which it carries through the anthill's nest, where it feeds on the ant's brood. He protects himself from ant stings by hiding in his house.