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Photo#5496
Black Caterpillar Hunter - Calosoma sayi

Black Caterpillar Hunter - Calosoma sayi
Durham County, North Carolina, USA
July 31, 2004
Found, apparently hunting, in the bay of a well-lighted all-night car wash. Captured, chilled, and posed. (Like most ground beetles, these are rather cold tolerant.)