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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Earth-Boring Scarab Beetles (Geotrupidae) » Geotrupinae » Geotrupes » subgenus Cnemotrupes (Geotrupes subgenus Cnemotrupes) » Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes blackburnii)
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Shiny Digging Beetle - Geotrupes blackburnii
Copyright © 2010 Ashley Bradford

Shiny Digging Beetle - Geotrupes blackburnii
Great Falls Park, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
September 23, 2010
Ran across this guy struggling on his back, which allowed me to get this belly shot before I helped it over. It took a couple steps before ending up on its back again - seems like an ungainly fellow! Shiny dark blue-green, at least on the underside.

It was large-ish - maybe 3/4"?

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Shiny Digging Beetle - Geotrupes blackburnii Shiny Digging Beetle - Geotrupes blackburnii
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 1 October, 2010 - 6:33pm
Last updated 4 October, 2010 - 9:38am

Moved
Moved from Splendid Earth Boring Beetle.
… Ashley Bradford, 4 October, 2010 - 9:38am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Ashley Bradford, 1 October, 2010 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

 
G. blackburnii...
not splendidus...
… Blaine Mathison, 1 October, 2010 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

 
D'oh -
apparent brain fart on my part - thank you!
… Ashley Bradford, 4 October, 2010 - 9:38am login or register to post comments

Geotrupes blackburnii
yup, confident after seeing second pic.
… Blaine Mathison, 1 October, 2010 - 7:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Great, thank you!
He WAS quite splendid! I was wishing my camera would pick up the colors better, but it was dusk and the flash seems to mess with shiny insect colors sometimes.
… Ashley Bradford, 1 October, 2010 - 8:27pm login or register to post comments

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