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Spotted on Feb 15, 2013
Submitted on Feb 15, 2013
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This is a scorpion fly, order Mecoptera. The lack of a tail that curls up like a scorpion makes me think it is a female, but it might be the angle of the photo. Members of the genus Panorpa look superficially like your spotting, so that might be a place to look: http://bugguide.net/node/view/9217/bgima...
Nice spotting, AshiAsh.
This is a scorpionfly.