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KashtanGeorge Los Angeles, CA(Zone 10a) Jul 07, 2009

Found in Kaluga region, Russia.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 07, 2009

This appears to be either a long-horned wood-boring beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) or possibly a leaf beetle in the subfamily Donacinae (see http://tinyurl.com/l95qfl for an example).

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Jul 08, 2009

Suunto, are you an entomologist, or just one of those folks who likes bugs and has a wealth of entomological trivia and facts stored up?

I fall under the second category, but can never remember the doggone names when I need to.

Moonhowl

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 09, 2009

Retired (some say retarded) entomologist...

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Jul 09, 2009

IOnly the envious folk, I am sure....grin.

So tell me, please, the logic behind eastern/southeastern lubbers. I know that they were at one time used in the manufacture of cough syrup, but don't think they are any longer.As far as I can tell, their sole purpose now is to eat my crinums and agapanthus.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 09, 2009

Preserved lubber grasshoppers once were (and maybe still are) a mainstay in high school biology classes where insect dissections took place. their large size made it easy to see the various anatomical structures. I was not aware that they had any potential medicinal qualities!

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Jul 09, 2009

Years ago, as a boy in south Louisiana, my husband encountered a man with a pickup truck bed full of wooden crates full of the black and red devil horses (lubbers) and asked the man what he was going to do with them. He told my husband they were being sold to a pharmaceutical company that used them in the manufacture of cough syrup.

Needless to say my husband swore he'd never get another cold.....

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KashtanGeorge Los Angeles, CA(Zone 10a) Jul 10, 2009

I cannot believe that story was real. However, we have a lot to learn from nature!

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Jul 10, 2009

Kashtan, he did indeed give the name of the company to my husband, but being nearly 50 years ago, my husband cannot remember the name of the company. The gentleman said it had something to do with the chiton.

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