2010 October 31 « Beetles In The Bush

Halloween ID challenge

October 31, 2010 by Ted C. MacRae 6 Comments

Class and order are gimmes – can you name the family, genus, and species? Common name? Something significant about its biology or behavior?

Photographed 25.ix.2010 in shortgrass prairie habitat atop the Pine Ridge in Sioux Co., Nebraska.

Photo Details: Canon 50D w/ MP-E 65mm 1-5X macro lens (ISO 100, 1/250 sec, f/11), Canon MT-24EX flash w/ Sto-Fen + GFPuffer diffusers. Typical post-processing (levels, minor cropping, unsharp mask).

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Filed under Arachnida, Araneae Tagged with arachnids, entomology, nature, Nebraska, quiz, science, spiders

…an inordinate fondness for beetles!

It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!--Charles Darwin

I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capture of rare beetles.--Charles Darwin

The Creator, if He exists, must have an inordinate fondness for beetles.--J. B. S. Haldane

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Ted C. MacRae is Senior Research Entomologist at an agricultural biotechnology company with a strong avocational interest in insect biosystematics. Primary interests include beetle taxonomy, particularly of wood boring beetles, with more recent interest also in tiger beetle survey and conservation. He is Managing Editor of the The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, Layout Editor for CICINDELA and Newsletter Editor for the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. Read his interview at Nature Blog Network, and visit him at these other sites:

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