@colinpurrington

Note bees can also be stylopized: after all, bees are wasps that forgot to eat meat (except carrion bees that make meat honey from rotten corpses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee but oh well).

Here is a Hylaeus sp., a masked bee, stylopized: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89223666 When I took the photo I had not even noticed; nearly didn't even post it, as I only had one and a bit blurry. Then John Ascher made me notice the parasite protruding from its tergites.

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