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Ampedus cordifer ? - Ampedus cordifer
Copyright © 2010 Gary McDonald

Ampedus cordifer ? - Ampedus cordifer
Aromas, San Benito County, California, USA
April 23, 2010
Size: ~12mm total length
Found this guy in our yard while I was cutting weeds & raking leaves. (live oak/chaparral habitat). I thought: "Gee, I guess I'll have to stop doing yard work and photograph bugs. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it." Looks like .
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Contributed by Gary McDonald on 25 April, 2010 - 10:38am
Last updated 25 April, 2010 - 12:55pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Dennis Haines, 25 April, 2010 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

Absolutely! How have you been
Absolutely! How have you been Gary?
… Dennis Haines, 25 April, 2010 - 12:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Dennis
for confirming the ID. Now that spring is here, I'm out photographing bugs again. I spent much of the fall and winter developing a website for IDing local marine inverts: Monterey Inverts, using both new digital photos and scans of 35mm slides from our days at MLML.
How are things at the Ag Commissioner's Office?
… Gary McDonald, 26 April, 2010 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

 
Staying busy! I'm getting out
Staying busy! I'm getting out as much as possible to collect and study insects as the spring gets going.
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