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Mating wasps - Ancistrocerus capra - male - female

Mating wasps - Ancistrocerus capra - Male Female
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
May 31, 2013
I cannot say for positive, but one hour earlier in the same vicinity, there were wasps preparing to mate.
http://tinyurl.com/TumblingWasps
which might explain the torn off leg.

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