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weird bug carrying another weird bug - Isodontia mexicana - female
Copyright © 2014 Nia

weird bug carrying another weird bug - Isodontia mexicana - Female
Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
August 18, 2014
I found this cool black fly bug last summer trying to carry another bug. The fly looked black and it had a really narrow middle part of its body... I've never seen anything like that before. The other bug looks light green.. and i can't really tell much else about it. Maybe its a grasshopper. They were pretty small, id say the black one is probably about 1.5 cm
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Contributed by Nia on 7 December, 2014 - 8:36pm
Last updated 22 June, 2021 - 12:44am

Moved
Moved from Grass-carrying Wasps.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 22 June, 2021 - 12:44am login or register to post comments

Cropped and moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.

As the Balabans noted, please be sure that future submissions are cropped as close to "just the bug" as possible. I've cropped this one for you as an example.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 7 December, 2014 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

Looks like an Isodontia
carrying a tree cricket, but difficult to be certain because the image is so small. Please crop your image to a rectangle that is essentially just the bug. While you as contributor can click on your image and see the full size 2400 pixel image you posted, the rest of us are restricted to the 560 pixel reduction. The bugs in your picture are less than a half inch on our screen.
… john and jane balaban, 7 December, 2014 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

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