Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Mecoptera: Panorpidae: Panorpa sp.
Common Name: scorpionfly
Country: USA
State/District: MD
County: Montgomery
Date: 31 May 2001
Photographer: E. M. Barrows
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Garden-1, Bethesda, Maryland
Keywords: brown insect Garden-1 orange insect scorpionfly Additional Information: Adults of panorpid scorpionflies commonly consume dead or dying
insects and sometimes consume fruits and nectar (Borror and White, 1970,
page 210).
Figures 1-2.
The same female scorpionfly on a leaf of Meadow Violet (which
see).
Borror, D. J., and R. E. White. 1970. A Field Guide to the Insects of
America North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 404 pp.
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