So what’s the significance? The female blister beetle of this species lays her eggs on the flowers of species that the target bee likes to visit. The larvae hatch out quickly, and when a bee comes along to visit the flower, one or more will jump on. If it’s a male bee, they ride around with him till he finds and mates with a female, whereupon they transfer buses. If it’s a female bee, they travel along to their final destination: the bee’s nest. As she works to provision each cell with pollen before placing an egg on it, the triungulin will jump off and make itself at home. It will eat the pollen the female bee collected, as well as the egg itself. It grows and matures, and eventually will emerge from the nest to go on to repeat the cycle.