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04/05/2013

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Sarasota News Leader April 5, 2013 Page 75 ply that there are millions of bug species, and trying to recover its original flight path, it ends all, just like O. Henry's The Four Million, are up defeated and dying on the ground, where people find it and wonder, "What is that bug?" worth knowing! Please be patient! Well, it's something to think about! I leave my readers with a provocative thought My mystery photo is of one of the prettiest and my own mystery bug. water bugs I ever ate. It is a "Predacious DivWhy are insects attracted to electric light? ing Beetle" family member and from What's Well, some entomologists are thinking that That Bug? I think I have narrowed it down the insects are not at all attracted to it, but to possibly Cybister fimbriolatus. Any reader while flying too close to a human-made light who knows exactly what it is, please just tell source, the bug becomes disoriented — dis- Otus! combobulated by this artificial light environOtus % ment — and then, when finally exhausted by Can you identify this beetle? File photo

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