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Efferia aestuans
Medium-sized, slender, with beak-like mouthparts. Females (like this one) in the genus Efferia have sword-like ovipositors at the tip of the abdomen.
Variable, but especially forest edges, fields, yards, other open habitats.
A predator of other flying insects.
Spotted on Jul 22, 2009
Submitted on Dec 3, 2012
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