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Old 02-05-2010, 09:38 AM
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kinetic (Steve)
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Weird night visitor insect

Last night this little guy flew in and landed on the dome
monitor. At first I thought it was a moth but it has a long
nose on it and looks like an anteater
I tried to get some closeups of it before it flew away.
He was quite placid and with some nudging I could get shots
from both sides of him.

Does anyone know what this is? Some sort of sap sucker or cicada?
Or simply a moth....?
Strange that something like this would be airborne at night, even though
there was still a 3/4 moon.

Steve
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