I have NO idea! - Dryinus crawfordi Bernardsville, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA July 1, 2010
Scherman Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary
I am doing a survey of the insects I find there over the summer! (requested by the sanctuaries directer
I have NO idea... At first I thoughts Stilt legded fly but then I realized that it had a mantis head, and eyes, and look at the antena! Those dont look like they belong to a fly! Plus, The front legs look like they have an extra segment or something. But yet it Cant be a mantis, because of the antena and the wings, which it used to fly off, (even though it sat and sometimes wandered around on the leaf, even when I bent and touched the leaf for pictures) It MUST be mimicing something but...
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