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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Oil Beetles (Meloe) » subgenus Meloe (Meloe subgenus Meloe) » Meloe campanicollis
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Oil Beetles - Meloe campanicollis - male - female
Copyright © 2010 Dan Leeder

Oil Beetles - Meloe campanicollis - Male Female
Camden County, New Jersey, USA
October 11, 2010
Mating Oil Beetles. I suspect these are Meloe campanicollis.

They were found in the same area as this one (about a year later though):


Every year at about the same time (early October), hundreds of these beetles appear and mate in the same area of Blueberry Hill Nature Preserve (a small park with biking/hiking trails) in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. GPS Coordinates of the "swarm" are 39.829331,-74.96069 (based on Google Maps).

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Oil Beetles - Meloe campanicollis - male - female Oil Beetles - Meloe campanicollis - male - female
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Contributed by Dan Leeder on 11 October, 2010 - 3:55pm
Last updated 18 June, 2013 - 11:37pm

ID confirmed by J.D. Pinto: Meloe campanicollis
Moved from Oil Beetles.
… v belov, 16 October, 2010 - 4:18pm login or register to post comments

 
As always....
Thanks V!
… Dan Leeder, 16 October, 2010 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 12 October, 2010 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

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