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Photo by MelvinMyers
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Field Notes

Description:

this guy is only 3/8 inches long on a hollyhock flower...What is it?.

Habitat:

on some hollyhocks

Species ID Suggestions

Wheel Bug nymph

Arilus cristatus

Reference Link
Mark Ridgway
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Comments (4)
Mark Ridgway
I think it's a nymph too - here's a Kansas website with the same http://www.tiedyedfreaks.org/ace/kcbugs/kcbugs.html
Mark Ridgway
Hi Melvin. Welcome to Project Noah. Nice shot. Maybe you could search Emesinae for this one. (Thread legged bugs)
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PublishedJune 21, 2013

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