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Buprestid - Dicerca divaricata
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Buprestid - Dicerca divaricata
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 12, 2011
Size: 16.3mm
I found this beetle hanging from a spider web, already dead.
Contributed by tom murray on 12 August, 2011 - 8:57pm
Last updated 13 August, 2011 - 12:13pm

My brother collected a jumpin
My brother collected a jumping spider carrying around a Chrysobothris quadriimpressa. You can see the puncture holes in the bup's elytra.
… Joshua P. Basham, 14 August, 2011 - 12:21am

Spider meal
Hi Tom,

Next time snap a photo of the spider eating its daily buprestid--ha!
… Richard L. Westcott, 13 August, 2011 - 12:15pm

 
That's a good idea for a picture. But this one was just dangling on a line coming from behind the bottom clapboard on the house.
… tom murray, 13 August, 2011 - 5:15pm

Moved
Moved from Dicerca.
… Richard L. Westcott, 13 August, 2011 - 12:13pm

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