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Why the Long Face? - _TNY_0693

This pretty thing on top of the flowers on a common yarrow ()Achillea millefolium, is a female common scorpionfly (Panorpa communis).

 

Among other things, these guys (and girls) can sometimes use that long beak to pick prey out of spider webs.

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Uploaded on December 22, 2021
Taken on July 19, 2017