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Assassin Bug Eating Fly - Zelus luridus
Copyright © 2018 David Israel

Assassin Bug Eating Fly - Zelus luridus
Woodside Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA
June 19, 2016

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Contributed by David Israel on 11 October, 2018 - 9:39pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 11 October, 2018 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Thanks, Ken. Do these change color as they mature? I just posted pictures of another one taken a couple of weeks earlier. It looks quite similar, but is much lighter. The pattern looks pretty much the same to me.
… David Israel, 11 October, 2018 - 10:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Both of your specimens are fully mature...
...so I think that some are just darker or more vivid than others.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 11 October, 2018 - 10:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I guess that it is just one of those things that make it hard for those of us that know a little about a lot of things to be able to tell which ones are the same and which ones are different. Thanks again.
… David Israel, 11 October, 2018 - 10:53pm login or register to post comments

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