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Old 23-07-2008, 03:33 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default can anyone identify this particular insect?

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doctoroe said:


Noticed a new bug in the area this summer. Can anyone identify it?
Photo below. Thanks

http://www.farmphoto.com/fpv2/thread...=600599#600599


May be a banded netwing beetle, or some other beetle in the family
Lycidae. (Not a garden pest.)

Believe you are right, Banded Net-wing Beetle - Calopteron reticulatum



http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/net_winged_beetles