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Six-spotted Flower Strangalia  Mating - Strangalia sexnotata - male - female

Six-spotted Flower Strangalia Mating - Strangalia sexnotata - Male Female
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
September 11, 2004
mating longhorned beetles

OOPS--change that to Strangalia
Correcting my own error--thanks to Tony Thomas. These are clearly Strangalia sexnotata--the male has that long abdominal projection typical of that genus.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina

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