Here’s a sneak peek at the critter that will be featured in tomorrow’s post. Any ideas? Hint: this is the first insect I’ve featured from the state in which it lives.
Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2012
Here’s a sneak peek at the critter that will be featured in tomorrow’s post. Any ideas? Hint: this is the first insect I’ve featured from the state in which it lives.
Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2012
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 an agricultural research entomologist with "an inordinate fondness for beetles." Primary expertise includes taxonomy and host associations of wood-boring beetles, with more recent interest also in tiger beetle survey and conservation. I am currently serving as Managing Editor of the The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, Layout Editor for the journal Cicindela and Newsletter Editor for the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. Visit me also at these other sites:
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Well, it’s a Cicindelidia, and it’s got 6 setae on the labrum. I’d say either C. rufiventris cumatilis or C. politula. Since you did mention C. politula habitat photos on Facebook, I’ll guess that. I’m not entirely confident it is identifiable from this view alone.
Those who follow my Facebook postings have a decided advantage!