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Rose Chafer on Common Milkweed - Macrodactylus subspinosus
Copyright © 2003 Cotinis

Rose Chafer on Common Milkweed - Macrodactylus subspinosus
Alston Avenue just north of I-40, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
June 17, 2003
Size: 12 mm
Defensive posture with hind legs extended, as photogrpaher approached. Plant is Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca.

Length measured by capture and photographing adjacent to a scale.

ID TBA--PC. (Possibly should be moved up to genus level--there is another species in this area--see comments on one image.)
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Contributed by Cotinis on 22 March, 2004 - 11:59am
Last updated 21 March, 2005 - 8:51am

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