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		<title>A &#8220;Really&#8221; Big-headed Tiger Beetle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted C. MacRae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my recent summary of the latest issue of the journal Cicindela, I included a scan of the cover of that issue and its stunning image of the 3rd-instar larva of Megacephala megacephala¹ from Africa.  This otherwordly-looking, four-eyed beast was photographed with jaws agape at the entrance to its burrow in Guinea Bissau by Dr. Artur M. Serrano (University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com&blog=5915972&post=4923&subd=beetlesinthebush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This is a big horse!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted C. MacRae</dc:creator>
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     more about &#34;&#8220;This is a big horse!&#8221;&#34;, posted with vodpod  

I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a more egregious example of insect-ID-fail than this one!  
It may, in fact, be a moth  
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiger beetles were not the only rare endemic species that I encountered during my visit to the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida last August.  I didn&#8217;t know what this small lizard was as I watched it bolt from the trail and scamper for cover during my approach; however, having already found two endemic tiger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com&blog=5915972&post=4862&subd=beetlesinthebush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I featured the rare Cicindela highlandensis (Highlands Tiger Beetle), restricted entirely to sand scrubland and pine woodland habitats along the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida (Choate 2003).  However, that would not be the only Florida endemic tiger beetle that I would encounter during my early August visit.  Another of the several tiger beetle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com&blog=5915972&post=4859&subd=beetlesinthebush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Highlands Tiger Beetle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my wife and I made plans to spend a week at her sister&#8217;s condominium in Florida this past summer, I began making a list of the tiger beetle species that I wanted to see.  I would be happy to see anything, since I had never before tiger beetled in Florida, but early August was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com&blog=5915972&post=4769&subd=beetlesinthebush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs4082.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Add to Twitter</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs4092.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Add to Technorati</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs4102.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Add to Furl</media:title>
		</media:content>
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	</channel>
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