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Name the Bug # 24

By Christopher Taylor at 9/13/2010 12:22:00 pm
Tomorrow's post will be related to this animal:



I'm pretty sure a couple of my readers will find this an easy one to identify. Attribution, as always, to follow.

Update: Identity now available here. Photo from here.

1 comment:

  1. Reprobus14 September 2010 at 05:26

    This is a "sausage fly" i.e. the gigantic male of an african driver ant (Dorylus). I've been lucky enough to witness a mating swarm (in Maun, Botswana). It was awesome. We fed large numbers of these to a fledgling owl our friend had rescued...

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