De    MENIER Jean
 Lab Entomologie
 45 rue Buffon F-75005 PARIS FRANCE
 Dear Bee-Listers, I am new on the line. I am a professionnal entomologist
 working on the systematics of Coleoptera Cleridae (checkered-beetles). Some
 species of the genus Trichodes are known to be "parasitic" in bee-hives,
 though not regularly. The litterature on bees is so large that I am sure I
 have missed papers (large or small) mentionning parasitic clerids. I am not
 asking for a complete review of the litterature on the subject, but if you
 happen to have in memory recent references in which such predacious behaviour
 is mentioned, I would appreciate these references. My direct e-mail address
 is   MENIERatFRMNHN11.BITNET. Thanks in advance, Sincerely, Jean J. Menier,
 Head of Coleoptera Section, Sub-Director, Entomology Dept., Mus{um national
 d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France. (my questions are not only dedicated to
 the northern hemisphere, litterature on predacious clerids everywhere in the
 world is welcome, specially publications in amateur reviews which are not
 mentionned in the Zoological record, or Entomology abstracts, ... Thanks). JJM