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Pepsis or Hemipepsis? - Pepsis pallidolimbata - female
Copyright © 2008 Aaron Schusteff

Pepsis or Hemipepsis? - Pepsis pallidolimbata - Female
East of Kelbaker Rd, a few miles south of I-40, San Bernadino County, California, USA
June 7, 2005
Curled antennae here => female.

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 19 October, 2008 - 7:05pm
Last updated 3 October, 2015 - 11:24pm

Moved
Moved from Tarantula Hawks.
… Aaron Schusteff, 3 October, 2015 - 11:24pm login or register to post comments

Interesting Milkweed!
Interesting Milkweed too!
… john and jane balaban, 19 October, 2008 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

 
"Rush Milkweed"
Yes, it's a beauty. It's grows with large clumps of pale-green (usually leafless) "rush-like" stems from 3-8 feet tall, near washes in the deserts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico. (I've seen it near the southern tip of Baja California...covered with milkweed bugs :-)

Here's a nice photo showing its growth habit (notice the Pepsis at the upper left of the plant). Seems Pepsis love this plant, here's another!

More photos of Asclepias subulata can be found here.
… Aaron Schusteff, 19 October, 2008 - 10:20pm login or register to post comments

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