Flying Space Alien / Wheelbug Invades Eastern Pennsylvania!
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Flying Space Alien / Wheelbug Invades Eastern Pennsylvania!

by Wayne Arnold
(Downingtown, PA)

My neighbor, who’s an exterminator, never saw anything like this guy. He looks like a cross between a stegosaurus and a stick bug. In searching the Internet I just found out that he is a wheel bug, the largest of the assassin bugs. They also said that they could grow to be 1 ½ inches long. If that’s true then this one was a world record; I’d say he was approx. 5 - 6” long, not counting the antennae. This image is actually rotated as he was crawling up the wall towards the windowsill. He then flew off.

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Flying Space Alien / Wheelbug Invades Eastern Pennsylvania!

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wheel bug
by: diane zone 6

I live in exton so please keep him in your backyard!!
Wheel bug
by: Moni

It is a wheel bug and if yours was that long it must be a record!
Usually only big bugs like that are in the tropics.
Thanks for sharing!

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