Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
07 / 21 / 2013
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Season Photo Was Taken
Summer
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Region Photo Was Taken
Northeast
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City
Redding
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State
Connecticut
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Posted by
Chris652
Notes:
Found this on the patio and wonder what it is. It does not look too friendly.
Comments
Walter Reeves The Georgia Gardener says:
check my website notes on dobsonfly
July 29th, 2013 at 9:21pm
spatialdrift Master Identifier says:
Yikes!
July 24th, 2013 at 8:23am
bullfroghollow Master Identifier says:
I think maybe a female dobsonfly. Never have seen one quite this ferociouhttp://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/06/12/female-dobsonfly-13/s looking.
July 23rd, 2013 at 11:22am
Jerry Howard Unregistered says:
If memory serves me, that’s an adult ant lion. As larvae, they live in sandy soil and are able to create a small cone-shaped depression. Ants come along, go into the bottom of this cone and low and behold the larva is sitting there and reaches out with powerful jaws and devours the ant.
July 23rd, 2013 at 11:54am