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Boll Weevil Or Something Close? - Ochyromera ligustri
Copyright © 2011 Jon Hart

Boll Weevil Or Something Close? - Ochyromera ligustri
Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
April 24, 2011
Size: unrecorded-maybe 5 mm
Found on sweet-gum leaf. This one looks like it was shot in the butt with bird-shot by a local farmer that caught it poaching his field. Note the large spur mid-tibia (or would that be femur?) on the front leg in the first photo.

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Boll Weevil Or Something Close? - Ochyromera ligustri Boll Weevil Or Something Close? - Ochyromera ligustri Boll Weevil Or Something Close? - Ochyromera ligustri
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Contributed by Jon Hart on 26 April, 2011 - 5:33pm

cool... fooled me for a minute
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 26 April, 2011 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Fooled me totally.....
I know, not hard to do. :-) One point is that these (nor their similar-looking brethren) are not really common in this area, although everything I have read indicates they should be. Maybe they've had a few bad years....
… Jon Hart, 26 April, 2011 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

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