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Last Monday I wrote:
Photographed this guy earlier this month near the Celery Farm. (What is it?)
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Yep! MUCH better answer than mine.
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Does not look like a Dobsonfly or Fishfly to me. I’m pretty sure it is a larval Pyrochroidae (Fire-colored beetle), see:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/771218
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Denise
Yep! MUCH better answer than mine.
Dana Price
Does not look like a Dobsonfly or Fishfly to me. I’m pretty sure it is a larval Pyrochroidae (Fire-colored beetle), see:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/771218