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Flower Longhorn beetle ID once again thanks to BugGuide. The person who did said this beetle is not photographed often. Not that it is rare, but I do think it may be only found at higher elevations. While there are places that you can drive to 5000+ feet, they are few, so it's more likely that you'll have to hike and with some elevation gain to see this bug. It seems to be locally common in the Olympics, several of the photos already at BugGuide were in the Hurricane Ridge/Deer Park area, where you can drive up quite high. There were plenty in the meadow where I was, in the North Cascades, but I didn't see these at Mt. Rainier, in similar conditions. Geotagged,Pachyta armata,Summer,United States Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Flower Longhorn beetle

ID once again thanks to BugGuide. The person who did said this beetle is not photographed often. Not that it is rare, but I do think it may be only found at higher elevations. While there are places that you can drive to 5000+ feet, they are few, so it's more likely that you'll have to hike and with some elevation gain to see this bug. It seems to be locally common in the Olympics, several of the photos already at BugGuide were in the Hurricane Ridge/Deer Park area, where you can drive up quite high. There were plenty in the meadow where I was, in the North Cascades, but I didn't see these at Mt. Rainier, in similar conditions.

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''Pachyta armata'' is the species of the Lepturinae subfamily in long-horned beetle family. This beetle is distributed in USA.

Similar species: Beetles
Species identified by morpheme
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By morpheme

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Uploaded Jul 10, 2015. Captured Jul 9, 2015 14:41 in North Cascades National Park, Monogram Lake Trail, Washington, USA.
  • X-E1
  • f/1.0
  • 1/500s
  • ISO400
  • 50mm