realmonstrosities:The Roslina Longicorn (Rosalia alpina) has the blues!It’s nice to see a Roslina Lo
realmonstrosities:The Roslina Longicorn (Rosalia alpina) has the blues!It’s nice to see a Roslina Longicorns out and about. It doesn’t happen often.Adults like this are only around for 3 to 6 weeks, hanging out in forests from the Alps to Poland and Slovakia.The rest of their time is spent as larvae munching through dry, decaying wood. They spend some three years like that!Dead wood makes for a pretty shoddy diet, so it takes a long time of dedicated eating before a grub is big enough to metamorphose into a beetle that can easily be over an inch long.…Images: Lammert Hilarides/David GENOUD -- source link