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         Males wait on Saguaro fruit to mate with females who visit this source of food.

         Males fight over these breeding sites by picking each other up with their large jaws and dropping them to the ground below.

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Long-jawed Longhorn Beetle (Dendrobias mandibularis)

pictured on a Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantean /Cereus giganteus)