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Drosophila ambochila feeding on the liquid oozing from a dying Urera glabra tree. Central Kaluaa Gulch. The tree was killed by scolytid beetles and heavily infected with fungus, making it apparently unsuitable as a Drosophila breeding site, but the adults were still feeding on the exudate.
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- Diptera, Drosophila, Drosophila ambochila, Drosophilidae, Hawaiian native arthropods, Honouliuli FR, Kaluaa Gulch, Oahu, Waianae Range
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- 2014:04:23 12:41:18
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- Oahu, Waianae Range, Honouliuli FR, Kaluaa Gulch, Diptera, Drosophilidae, Drosophila, Drosophila ambochila, Hawaiian native arthropods
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- Drosophila ambochila feeding on the liquid oozing from a dying Urera glabra tree. Central Kaluaa Gulch. The tree was killed by scolytid beetles and heavily infected with fungus, making it apparently unsuitable as a Drosophila breeding site, but the adults were still feeding on the exudate.
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