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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Fruit and Flower Chafers (Cetoniinae) » Trichiini » Trichiotinus » Trichiotinus piger
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Shiny pollen-eating scarab - Trichiotinus piger
Copyright © 2010 James C. Trager

Shiny pollen-eating scarab - Trichiotinus piger
Shaw Nature Reserve near Gray Summit, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
May 30, 2009
Size: 12 mm
Picture from 2009, but these glossy, showy scarabs are just becoming active again this year.

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Shiny pollen-eating scarab - Trichiotinus piger Shiny pollen-eating scarab - Trichiotinus piger
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Contributed by James C. Trager on 19 May, 2010 - 12:24pm
Last updated 4 July, 2010 - 4:11pm

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Would you be willing to give permission to the WI-DNR to use your photo during pollinator week to showcase a beetle as a pollinator. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at jay.watson@wisconsin.gov. Thanks!
… Jay Watson, 12 June, 2018 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

Cleaning up Trichiotinus
Moved from Trichiotinus.
… Blaine Mathison, 4 July, 2010 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 9 June, 2010 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Trichiotinus [?piger]
others will tell for sure
… v belov, 19 May, 2010 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

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