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Phymata goes cuckoo - Phymata pennsylvanica
Copyright © 2010 Erick Adams

Phymata goes cuckoo - Phymata pennsylvanica
West Greenwich, Arcadia Management Area, Breakheart Pond, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
July 31, 2010
Size: 7mm
There was a mixed population of Eupatorium (Joe-Pye Weed) species near this pond.
Ants were farming something on all the purple flowering species with glabrous stems, but
not on the white flowered E. perfoliatum because of its hirsute stems. So I checked,
and sure enough, amubush bugs & crab spiders were only on the inflorescences of ant-free plants. Neat.

I guess curling up didn't do much for the Cuckoo.

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Contributed by Erick Adams on 31 July, 2010 - 5:18pm
Last updated 10 May, 2021 - 4:33pm

Moved tentatively; love the title
Moved from Jagged Ambush Bugs.
… v belov, 10 May, 2021 - 4:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Assassin Bugs.
… Erick Adams, 9 August, 2010 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

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