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Tachysphex? - Tachysphex
Copyright © 2008 Gary McDonald

Tachysphex? - Tachysphex
Aromas, San Benito County, California, USA
July 2, 2008
Size: ~10mm
Here are photos of another individual of , with another head-on photo to aid ID.

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Contributed by Gary McDonald on 2 July, 2008 - 5:59pm
Last updated 8 July, 2008 - 3:38am

Great shots, as usual!
and nice how you linked the images together! I think I may have seen one of these, but not gotten close enough to get a picture. Since we are not all that far apart, and see a lot of the same insect species, my question is:

Have you seen this similar but different one:

… HandsOff, 5 August, 2008 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Hi Handsoff
No, I've not seen a , at least not and realized it (and so don't have any photos of it), but when I photographed I thought I was photographing another . So maybe I've seen one of your guys and just didn't photograph it because I thought I already had photos of it; it wouldn't be the first time I've declined to photograph a bug because I thought I already had photos of it. For example I took only one photo of this guy becasue I thought it was another one of these of which I had several photos, someday maybe I'll learn.
… Gary McDonald, 6 August, 2008 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

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