Colour Variants

Couple

Length: 13-20mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	(2-3 Years)	May - June	May - August (Earliest: 2.6)

Biotopes:	Meadows	Wet Meadows	Hedge Rows	Beech Forest
	Wet Forest
Food: (Larva) (Polyphagous Wood Borer)	Dead Angiosperm Wood
Food: (Adult)	Several Apiaceae Pollen	Cirsium arvense Pollen	Leucanthemum vulgare Pollen	Rubus fruticosus Pollen
	Epilobium angustifolium Pollen
Possible Parasitoids:	Many Ichneumonidae Larvae	Several Braconidae Larvae

Longhorn Beetles of the Western Palaearctic Region: Rutpela maculata
UK Beetles: Rutpela maculata
Nature Spot: Rutpela maculata
Insektenbox: Gefleckter Schmalbock

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