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Nicrophorus hybridus

Nicrophorus hybridus
Clay County, Minnesota, USA
July 30, 1999
Size: 28mm

Two comments
A) Your profile is the best ever
B) How do you get these photos? They look like illustrations they're so clear and sharp. In fact, I'm not sure I believe this is a photo!

 
Thanks for the compliments
I try to keep my life as interesting as possible, and as such I dont like to fit to the norm very much. (tend to think of myself like the character Chris Knight in the movie Real Genius)

My photo quality comes from several years of experimenting with cameras, lighting, and Photoshop, and when the three come together, I get a pretty outstanding product. I am never happy with anything of mine being mediocre.

 
We seem to share that in comm
We seem to share that in common. I've never been big on conforming to what the standard idea of what life should be like. I'm completely eschewing the traditional bio-pre-med route for school and I'm going straight to entomology. As for technique, I guess I have a ways yet to go! I don't know how to use editing software, which I need to learn. I'm thinking of setting up a light-box workstation for my specimens. How did you become such an expert on Silphids?

 
dont know if I'd say expert
But a few of my faunal studies involved pit trapping, and of course the silphids come running, and since there are so few species, and fairly easy to tell apart, I thought I might as well get to know them. I tend to gravitate towards those types of groups. Easy enough to wrap my brain around. Unfortunately right now I am in the middle of carabids. Seems like a never ending ID nightmare right now. I am also working on getting all of the North Dakota scarabs imaged, along with muddling though the revision of Aphodius as soon as I get a copy.

 
Is there anything you'd like
Is there anything you'd like me to keep an eye out for. I like sending things to people that I find. I sent Brad Barnd a Pangaeus fasciatus last week, and I'm looking out for Geotrupids for Philip, can you think of anything? Also, do you know of any significant systematics work on Tiger Beetles? I'm thinking of maybe doing my masters/Ph.D. on them when I get there

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