ID Challenge #3
January 18, 2011 23 Comments
A straight-up identification challenge – see ID Challenge #2 for a detailed explanation of the rules:
Photograph taken June 27, 2010 in northwestern Missouri. Good luck!
Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2011
Experiences and reflections of a Missouri entomologist
January 18, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae 23 Comments
A straight-up identification challenge – see ID Challenge #2 for a detailed explanation of the rules:
Photograph taken June 27, 2010 in northwestern Missouri. Good luck!
Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2011
Filed under [No taxon] Tagged with ID challenge, Missouri, nature, quiz
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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