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Large carabid - Calosoma scrutator
Copyright © 2008 Charley Eiseman

Large carabid - Calosoma scrutator
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
July 5, 2008

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 April, 2009 - 9:56am
Last updated 6 May, 2009 - 12:09am

Caterpillar Hunter, Fiery Searcher
Hi Charley,
I believe you have pictures of the Caterpillar Hunter or Fiery Searcher, Calosoma scrutator.
They're such a colorful beetle, and big!
Here's some more info.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/389
Andy
… Andrew Williams, 21 April, 2009 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks--
Fiery searcher was what I had been thinking, but the color seemed off compared with the images on BugGuide. I guess that can be attributed to my flash though.
… Charley Eiseman, 21 April, 2009 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

 
picture color note
The color space your camera is set to will affect color, sRGB vs. Adobe1998, as well as the flash and white balance settings. I'm not an expert on the taxonomy stuff, so we could wait for an expert opinion on the beetle. I don't know what else it would be though. As far as I know that the only one that looks like that. Here are a few pics I took of a couple of them. As I recall it was super tough to get them to be still, and with 105mm and 1.5x crop factor, I had to be kind of far from them where I couldn't control the situation very well. :)
http://www.critterzone.com/gallery/insect-beetle-caterpillar-hunter-Calosoma-scrutator-gallery.htm
… Andrew Williams, 21 April, 2009 - 12:08pm login or register to post comments

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