Meloe

The natural habitats of the short-necked oil beetle, Meloe brevicollis, have been affected by the spread of intensive agriculture since the Second World War.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

The UK press has been celebrating the rediscovery of the short-necked oil beetle, Meloe brevicollis, in south Devon.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

Neraïr et Meloe, roman oriental, par H.B. Deblanes (1759).

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

These three lodgings adopted by _Meloe cicatricosus_ may be of some slight interest, as leading us to suspect that each species of Meloe is apparently the parasite of diverse Bees, a suspicion which will be confirmed when we examine the manner in which the larvæ reach the cell full of honey.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

In the first batch, which, it is true, is the most prolific of all, _Meloe proscarabæus_, according to Newport's calculations, produces the astonishing number of 4,218 eggs, which is double the number of eggs laid by a Sitaris.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Amply nourished this Meloe then acquires her normal size, the size in which she usually figures in the collections.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Meloe-beetle, in short, for all those who feed on the provisions of others.

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

I will not describe the young Meloe-larva, which is sufficiently well known, in particular by the description and the diagram furnished by

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

I had no Meloe-larvæ at my disposal and could not obtain any save by searching for them in the Bees 'fleece, the Anthophora-eggs were all discovered to have hatched in the cells which I brought back from my expedition, when I was at last able to find some.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Lastly, through the fissure, which divides it almost in two, a Meloe-nymph half-emerges; so that, to all appearances, the pseudochrysalis has been followed immediately by the nymph, which does not happen with the Sitares, which pass from the first of these two states to the second only by assuming an intermediary form closely resembling that of the larva which eats the store of honey.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869