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Osmoderma emericola - Osmoderma eremicola

Osmoderma emericola - Osmoderma eremicola
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
April 16, 2006
Size: about 32 mm
Here is the larva emerging or eclosing from its rather thick pupal skin. (In my experience, some species' pupal skins are rather flimsy.) You can see its right wing and wingcover spreading out to dry. As I watched, the beetle would spread the wing out from time-to-time with its right rear leg.

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