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Photo#20357
Red-Headed Ash Borer - Neoclytus acuminatus

Red-Headed Ash Borer - Neoclytus acuminatus
Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
June 11, 2005
Size: 15mm
I saw this beetle resting on the leaf of a pear tree, but it quickly dropped to the ground when I approached it. Taken indoors for better photographs.

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