Tiger beetle - Cicindela lengi

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Tiger beetle - Cicindela lengi

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I am the new kid on the block and just getting a feel for this site. Posting my first image and my favorite from this summer so far (actually summer is over) of a Tiger beetle beetle eating a female fly with eggs coming out. There is some really great photography on this site and hopefully I can bring up my level to match it. Here goes...
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Excellent catch! :D

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Very nice :smt041
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Nice capture for both of you!

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Nice catch. Well done.
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This is a beautiful post! I look forward to seeing more of your work.

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Well done! No simple thing to get that picture.
From what I see of it, your subject could be a big sands tiger beetle (Cicindela formosa).
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MarkSturtevant wrote:
Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:17 pm
Well done! No simple thing to get that picture.
From what I see of it, your subject could be a big sands tiger beetle (Cicindela formosa).
Entomologist, John Acorn and author of "Tiger Beetles of Alberta: Killers on the Clay, Stalkers on the Sand" and Bug Guide have confirmed it to be a Cicindela lengi via other pictures I have. I think I got this posting reply figured out.

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Talk about "a bad day at the office," for the fly that is. Great shot.

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