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Ground beetle - Carabus nemoralis
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

Ground beetle - Carabus nemoralis
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 28, 2007
Size: 28mm
I found about a dozen of these, and the size varied from 23-28mm.

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Contributed by tom murray on 29 April, 2007 - 10:28am

A dozen!!!
This one appears to be a girl. The metallic blue is my clue. The males seem to be metallic fuscia along the edge of the pronotum.
… Jim McClarin, 29 April, 2007 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Pitfall traps
I ran across a line of pitfall traps that someone set up along a silt fence to trap salamanders, and I looked in a bunch of them. This was the most common beetle, along with some other carabids, roves, and spiders.
… tom murray, 29 April, 2007 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

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