Covered in pollen and mites: a longhorn beetle makes its way around a dandelion flower.
Here’s an old friend with a masterful disguise that didn’t fool me or the mites waiting on board for departure. Mimicry among insects is so fascinating, and most often very beautiful. This longhorn beetle, Cerambycidae, is a rare find for me, as I think I’ve only seen one other longhorn mimic — a skinny wasp-suited one in a cactus flower in Florida (which I’m sure I’ll get around to posting one of these days…or years).
Anyway, it’s an ant suit any mimic could be proud of. Please read on, several photos below.
Perhaps a new definition of heavy-legged for this longhorn beetle.This ant-mimicking longhorn beetle appears not to have fooled the mites.The longhorn was understandably a little wobbly traversing blades of grass.The longhorn reaching out for the next blade of grass.Horns out for this beetle which just kept trying to hang on. (In general but but also onto that blade of grass.)This might be the surest footing the longhorn achieved, which is key, because……the longhorn could finally take off for flight, leaving me a final, tardy photo without a bug.
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Nice shots.
Great photos