Mike N.: I didn't realize what it was until I got home and pulled my photos into Lightroom. Even its flight path looked convincingly like a tarantula hawk!

Thought I finally got a tarantula wasp shot today, but the abdomen was wrong. A biology PhD student friend showed it to some colleagues, who pointed me to the Alcathoe genus on iNaturalist. #Invertebrates

Whoa, it’s a moth. That’s some nice mimicry.

I didn't realize what it was until I got home and pulled my photos into Lightroom. Even its flight path looked convincingly like a tarantula hawk!

I love the long tail. I think it might be part dragon too. 🐉

I was looking on my phone, just saw the cylindrical abdomen and thought “oh that’s a Sirex wood wasp.” Probably part of the same mimicry!

Oh yeah, a very similar look! To paraphrase another comment, it pays to look like the spiciest snack in the country!

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