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Wheel Bug

Arilus cristatus

Photo by MadGrady
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Field Notes

Description:

Very large beetle with orange-red antannae

Habitat:

North America

Notes:

Found this guy resting on our front porch steps. Caught another one hovering clumsily in the air in my kitchen

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Wheel bug

Species ID Suggestions

Wheel bug

Arilus cristatus

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Ignacio Gamboa
2

Assassin Bug

Reduviidae
LennyWorthington
1

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