This guy was crawling across the street in front of my house, I figured better in the studio than flat...
Here is the whole beetle (8mm)
and the "head shot"
Beetle ID please!?
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Nice images!
Appearance and behavior suggest to me a "ground beetle", family Carabidae. Visually very similar to http://bugguide.net/node/view/282732.
--Rik
Appearance and behavior suggest to me a "ground beetle", family Carabidae. Visually very similar to http://bugguide.net/node/view/282732.
--Rik
Perhaps the best book for identifying an American insect, at least to family is Arnett:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Insects- ... tt+insects
http://www.amazon.com/American-Insects- ... tt+insects
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No man can be truly called an entomologist,
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The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
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