Little Beetle Bullies Littler Beetle

Sometimes as Crumby follows the antics of the insects he witnesses outright interspecific aggression. In this example this tiny flower Bupestrid (Acmaeodera neglecta), perhaps the littlest of all the many flower Bupestrids that occur at the CB, is picking on a tinier tumbling flower beetle (Mordellistena cervaicalis), fixing to push it off the flower petal. Yes. Once Crumby also espied two of the Moderllistena fornicating. Then along came a Buprestid and bumped them, interrupting their joy and chasing them off their flowery perch or bed. Mercy!