#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."

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Ref
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1326

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