The latest find
Thursday afternoon, I was out on the land (some trail clearing, some maintenance (checking water levels, pumps, feeders, etc.) some photography, some loafing) when something I didn't recognize flew past my face and landed on a nearby Ashe juniper.
Naturally, I looked at it. Still didn't recognize it. The overall body shape looked something like the familiar Leaf-footed Bug we have (large, black, with orange-red tipped antennae), and there was a greatly swollen secton of the hind legs, but this was smaller, slenderer, a golden tan, and the head...well, the head looked as if you'd taken a praying mantis head and put it on a leaf-footed bug.
Thanks to BugGuide.net, I now know it is a Broad-headed Bug, Hyalymenus tarsatus.
Naturally, I looked at it. Still didn't recognize it. The overall body shape looked something like the familiar Leaf-footed Bug we have (large, black, with orange-red tipped antennae), and there was a greatly swollen secton of the hind legs, but this was smaller, slenderer, a golden tan, and the head...well, the head looked as if you'd taken a praying mantis head and put it on a leaf-footed bug.
Thanks to BugGuide.net, I now know it is a Broad-headed Bug, Hyalymenus tarsatus.
