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Name the Bug # 17

Here's another one that's a preview for an upcoming post. Can anyone tell me what this is?



Attribution, as always, to follow.

Update: Identity now available here. Photo from here.

8 comments:

  1. A hornwort of sorts?

    Btw, welcome to FoS! =D

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  2. Some sort of podostem..oid?

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  3. Looks like you got it, Reprobus...
    http://www.plantsystematics.org/imgs/kcn2/r/Podostemaceae_G_sp_3800.html

    Upon realising it wasn't a hornwort and was likely some sort of dicot, I gave up...

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  4. That was quick (I was hoping for people to waste time looking up bryophytes). There'll be a Podostemaceae post some time next week.

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  5. Christopher you gave it away in your previous post. We do read them y'know.
    Speaking of bugs (proper ones) - how about a piece on scale insects some day? Now that's a weird bunch of bizarre beasts...

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  6. Dude, that broccoli has gone bad.

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  7. OK... We do read them. But maybe not ALL of them! Didn't know the males had lost the hindwings - I'll look more closely next time I get a chance.

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