I saw this pair of Lixus weevils yesterday clinging to a plant stalk. They look like anteaters crossed with grasshoppers, only twice as ridiculous. They appear to be black yet covered with an orange or rust-colored powder. They continued to mate as I pointed the camera at them. The lower one, however, would slide around the stalk to hide from me.
Arboretum: Butterflies and Weevils
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Tagged american copper butterfly, Arnold Arboretum, black swallowtail butterfly, Boston, butterflies, eastern pine elfin, insects, Massachusetts, Ornithogalum umbellatum, peck's skipper, tawny-edged skipper, weevils
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