....and this is for Beetleman (Doug)

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JoanYoung
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....and this is for Beetleman (Doug)

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The nearest I can come to identification is that it seems to belong to the Dung Beetle family as there is no picture of it in my insect book. This one was about 5mm in length and kept on trying to burrow itself into my towel to hide so I had to pick him up and try a one handed shot of him crawling on my other hand. (A good thing this old bird is not scared of things like this or else you would not get this pic. LOL!!) He is a beautiful beetle and the shot came out pretty good as you can see his three colours.

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Post by Ken Ramos »

This looks like it is right up Dougs alley. A good shot Joan, the metallic colors of these are really neat. Funny thing though, I seldom find or run across beetles around here. Maybe it is that I am just not looking for them and I should be. :D

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Post by MacroLuv »

Very nice metallic scarab beetle there Joan. :D
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Post by JoanYoung »

Ken
the metallic colors of these are really neat
Thanks for the comment Ken. The metalic colours did not show in all the pics I took, it depended on how the sun caught him.

Nikola: thanks for the nice comment Nikola, they are lovely but this was quite small, not like the usual scarab's. probably a baby one :)
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Post by Gordon C. Snelling »

Wow, nice one, definitely a dunger but not sure of the Ident as I know the African species almost not at all.

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Post by JoanYoung »

Thanks Gordon. There are quite a number of this specfies here but there is no picture of this one in my book as it only lists the most common ones.
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Post by Bruce Williams »

Could it be an RGB beetle :wink:

I find ground beetles to be a difficult subject (not least because they run so fast :lol: ).

Nice shot Joan.

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Post by JoanYoung »

Thanks for the comment Bruce. LOL!! You must have different beetles than we do. Here they are pretty slow except for one which went jogging down the road at top speed. :lol: But I put something down in front of him (my hand) and he stopped long enough to get his picture taken. This little fellow kept on burrowing into everything so eventually I had to pick him up in order to get something decent. Must be something in the air there!! :lol:
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Post by beetleman »

That is one excellent looking Beetle Joan. Incredible colors :shock: You did an excellent job on the photo also. Thank you very much for sharing this with us. This is a fine example of why I started enjoying insects when I was a young one, because of the fantastic shapes and colors you find on them. I looked at this one and my eyes just popped out. :smt023. I would agree on the dung beetle ID because of the classic shovel head. I found out a long time ago...you will never have enough books to ID a lot of the insects you find. :wink:
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Post by JoanYoung »

I found out a long time ago...you will never have enough books to ID a lot of the insects you find.
Thank you for your lovely comment Doug. I thought you might like this one. :)
Unfortunately you are right about books...they are very scarce here too and not knowing them, it is difficult to give a proper name. No wonder you have such an interest in them. I have come across some beautiful ones since I started taking photos of them.
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