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Field Notes

Description:

orange and black very stick like

Habitat:

found in a leafy plant in my backyard

Species ID Suggestions

Milkweed Assassin Big

Zelus longipes

Reference Link
bayucca
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Comments (2)
bayucca
It is not a beetle, but an assassin bug. Reduviidae, Harpactorinae, Zelus longipes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelus_longipes http://bugguide.net/node/view/580836/bgpage http://bugguide.net/node/view/641750/bgimage http://bugguide.net/node/view/676978/bgimage http://bugguide.net/node/view/4832/bgimage
callawa37
I'm thinking some sort of weevil?
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PublishedMay 23, 2014

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