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The One Who Stayed - _TNY_5467

The scientific name for this nice and fairly large longhorn beetle is Lepturobosca virens. It lacks an English name, but translating the Swedish one gives (grön blombock) us "green flower longhorn". This particular one was muching pollen on a meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria).

 

When I closed in there were a whole bunch of flies, including several hoverflies around it, but they all soon left, leaving the beetle alone in front of the lens.

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Uploaded on August 13, 2023
Taken on August 12, 2023