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Bugs mating on Flannel Mullein - Leptoglossus phyllopus - male - female

Bugs mating on Flannel Mullein - Leptoglossus phyllopus - Male Female
Junction City, 15 SE, Flint Hills/Tall Grass Prairie/Geary County, Kansas, USA
July 6, 2017
In the past 5 days, I have found 3 groups of these bugs (overlapping mating pairs), always on Flannel Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) in our bottomland prairie restoration. I can't get over that 3rd pair of legs--that strange flaring-out just above the "foot."

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