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A mystery

6 Comments Posted by TGIQ on March 10, 2010

Ok, I’m jumping on the guessing-game bandwagon, ’cause it’s fun.

Here’s a snippet of a pic I snapped yesterday.

I wanna know:

5 points for each 😛

Tell me the story

christie March 10, 2010 at 11:27 AM
Oh my gosh….I have no idea. Anxiously awaiting the answer though!

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Robert V Sobczak March 10, 2010 at 12:32 PM
This site “bugs” me … but in a good way. Great macro work on your photos. BTW, just had visitors here in Florida from Whithorse in the Yukon.

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- TGIQ March 10, 2010 at 12:42 PM
  Glad I’m bugging you the right way, Robert, and thanks for the compliments on the photos, it means a lot!
  
  Alllllll the way from Whitehorse? Now THAT’s a long walk! 😛
  
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Robert V Sobczak March 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Is that a nut?

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Ted C. MacRae March 10, 2010 at 6:17 PM
I see what looks to be a cerambycid larva head capsule (perhaps a pine sawyer, genus Monochamus, or maybe Rhagium) – but instead of the rest of the beetle larva I see numerous parasitic hymenopteran (ichneumonoid?) cocoons and some frass from the beetle. Looks like the beetle larva was parasitized in its gallery and the parasitoids have all pupated.

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