Scorpionfly, home

I'm more than old enough to remember Jimmy Durante, the famous entertainer who delighted in drawing attention to his even-more famous nose, which he dubbed, in a marriage of Yiddish and Italian, the Great Schnozzola. It was a memorable schtick, and when I noticed this striking insect on a hydrangea leaf, I could hear Jimmy, who died in 1980 at the age of 86, noticing the bug and declaring, "Now, that's a schnozzola!" The comedian/musician might not have been able to come up with a name for the critter, and, in all honesty, I couldn't either when I spotted the insect whose boldly patterned wings were a nice counter to its attention-grabbing "nose"—technically, a rostrum. But I knew that, at one time, I knew the insect, so I took the obligatory deep dive and, after some very enjoyable searching, re-learned it as a Scorpionfly—a member of the insect order Mecoptera. It's in the genus Panorpa, but, as I learned from BugGuide, the panorpid group is under revision by taxonomists, so all things specific are bound to change.