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  1. #Firebug #Pyrrhocoris #apterus is distributed across parts of the #Palaearctic with northward trend. Most individuals are #shortwinged (#brachypterous), only 5% #longwinged (#macropterous). With few exceptions, all are #flightless, but differ in their#lifehistories. E. Gyuris et al. (2010) found differing #individualbehaviors (#personalities) with females of the long-winged morph being "braver and more exploratory."

    ©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1326

    #Photos
    ©S.F. Wirth

  2. #Firebug #Pyrrhocoris #apterus is distributed across parts of the #Palaearctic with northward trend. Most individuals are #shortwinged (#brachypterous), only 5% #longwinged (#macropterous). With few exceptions, all are #flightless, but differ in their#lifehistories. E. Gyuris et al. (2010) found differing #individualbehaviors (#personalities) with females of the long-winged morph being "braver and more exploratory."

    ©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1326

    #Photos
    ©S.F. Wirth

  3. #Firebug #Pyrrhocoris #apterus is distributed across parts of the #Palaearctic with northward trend. Most individuals are #shortwinged (#brachypterous), only 5% #longwinged (#macropterous). With few exceptions, all are #flightless, but differ in their#lifehistories. E. Gyuris et al. (2010) found differing #individualbehaviors (#personalities) with females of the long-winged morph being "braver and more exploratory."

    ©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1326

    #Photos
    ©S.F. Wirth

  4. #Firebug #Pyrrhocoris #apterus is distributed across parts of the #Palaearctic with northward trend. Most individuals are #shortwinged (#brachypterous), only 5% #longwinged (#macropterous). With few exceptions, all are #flightless, but differ in their#lifehistories. E. Gyuris et al. (2010) found differing #individualbehaviors (#personalities) with females of the long-winged morph being "braver and more exploratory."

    ©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1326

    #Photos
    ©S.F. Wirth

  5. #Firebug #Pyrrhocoris #apterus is distributed across parts of the #Palaearctic with northward trend. Most individuals are #shortwinged (#brachypterous), only 5% #longwinged (#macropterous). With few exceptions, all are #flightless, but differ in their#lifehistories. E. Gyuris et al. (2010) found differing #individualbehaviors (#personalities) with females of the long-winged morph being "braver and more exploratory."

    ©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1326

    #Photos
    ©S.F. Wirth

  6. The #firebug #Pyrrhocoris apterus is widespread throughout much of #Palearctic. Adults and the five nymphal stages tend to #aggregate. They are #soildwellers and feed on plant #seeds, occasionally also on insect eggs. Some mite species can be on the bugs, with the #parasitic #mite #Hemipteroseius adleri being particularly specialized for it.

    © #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

    in my #YouTube video about a tree (2025)
    youtu.be/wZqDuEFu8Nk?si=0HLyBs

    #Photo

    P. apterus Bln, 2020, new edit 2025 © S. F. Wirth