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Burrowing Bug - Microporus
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Burrowing Bug - Microporus
Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
May 14, 2005
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Contributed by tom murray on 16 May, 2005 - 7:33am
Last updated 3 May, 2007 - 7:28pm

Moved
Moved from Burrowing Bugs.
… tom murray, 3 May, 2007 - 7:28pm login or register to post comments

Genus Microporus may fit - b
Genus Microporus may fit - but can´t exclude some other genera.
… Boris Büche, 3 May, 2007 - 8:18am login or register to post comments

Nice photo
Nice photo Tom. I guess those bristly legs help with the digging or at least with pushing dirt away. Where does one find Burrowing Bugs?

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
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… Stephen Cresswell, 16 May, 2005 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

 
Luck and time
will get you one of these. This one was sunning itself on a rock in a dirt trail through a pine barren. The others I've seen have been under a landscape timber around our flower garden. Good luck.
… tom murray, 16 May, 2005 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

 
above ground
The two I've found so far have been on or at the base of house foundations. The one at the foundation base was actually under a cement sundail base. I don't expect this statistical base of two is a great help.
… Jim McClarin, 16 May, 2005 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

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