A newcomer could easily get lost in its tunnels, and the unwary is easy prey to predatory wasps or mantises .
A newcomer could easily get lost in its tunnels, and the unwary is easy prey to predatory wasps or mantises .
This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
It is revealing that they often mix and shuffle elements from various species, combining the antlers of a stag beetle and the feelers of a fly, or a butterfly's proboscis and an ant's thorax, to create fantastic new hybrids.