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another type of carrion beetle? - Oiceoptoma noveboracense
Copyright © 2007 Ilona Loser

another type of carrion beetle? - Oiceoptoma noveboracense
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
May 7, 2007
This is also some type of carrion beetle -- found on the carcass of a dead possum. (phew!)

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another type of carrion beetle? - Oiceoptoma noveboracense another type of carrion beetle? - Oiceoptoma noveboracense
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Contributed by Ilona Loser on 8 May, 2007 - 2:08pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Ilona Loser, 8 May, 2007 - 2:14pm login or register to post comments

Oiceoptoma novaboracense
Oiceoptoma novaboracense
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 8 May, 2007 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Carrion beetle
Thanks for the quick response! I hadn't even finished adding the second photo.
… Ilona Loser, 8 May, 2007 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

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