Gallery: Absurd Creature of the Week: This Is an Actual Insect. This Is Not a Joke

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    C is for creepy, that's good enough for me.
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    USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab/<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/10365263303/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>
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    *Campylenchia latipes*, so named because I haven't the slightest clue.
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    USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab/<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/10355456215/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>
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    *Entylia carinata*
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    Hsuepfle/<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Membracis_c-album_2_ZSM_(HS).jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia</a>
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    Membracis-c-album-2-ZSM-(HS)

    *Membracis foliata*
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    USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab/<a href="https://flic.kr/p/fDbRGM" target="_blank">Flickr</a>
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    The buffalo treehopper looks more like the [aliens from *Independence Day*](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110124141918/aliens/images/b/b2/Alien_Independence_Day.png) than a buffalo.
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    João Coelho/<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/joaocoelho/3650174068/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>
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    *Centrotus cornutus*
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