Tarantula Hawk - Hemipepsis toussainti -  Garden Canyon, Ft. Huachuca military base, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA April 17, 2010
I'm fairly confident in the identification. The orange antennae are pretty distinctive. This was the best image I could get. She was prowling rapidly....Naturally, she eventually flew straight into my feet, and I was worried for an instant she might crawl up a pant leg :-)
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 21 April, 2010 - 4:30pm Last updated 1 April, 2012 - 10:16am |