Black hairstreak
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The black hairstreak is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Black hairstreak female laying egg
Satyrium pruni 1
Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 5
Figs 5, 5a, 5b larva after last moult 5c pupa
Honeydew (secretion)
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Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid that is secreted by aphids, some scale insects, many other true bugs, and some other insects as they feed on plant sap. When their mouthpart penetrates the phloe
Black hairstreak
…accompanying the orange band which the white-letter hairstreak never has. They spend most of their lives in the canopy or in dense scrub, feeding on honeydew, and very rarely come down to ground level. Eggs are laid singly on young blackthorn Prunus spinosa growth and it is this stage which hibernates…
An aphid produces honeydew for an ant in an example of mutualistic symbiosis.
Honeydew drops on leaves
Bald-faced hornet sips honeydew from a Disholcaspis quercusmamma gall covered by sooty mold
Honeydew puddle under a tree