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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Featherwing[ed] Beetles (Ptiliidae) » Ptiliinae » Ptinellini
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Another Speck Beetle
Copyright © 2012 Ashley Bradford

Another Speck Beetle
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
May 28, 2012
Size: .6 mm
Ventral view, shot with a Raynox MSN-202 on my Canon S5 - the best I can get with my gear. After being refrigerated for over an hour, the beetle came to entirely too quickly, which prevented me from getting any posterior shots with this lens, as it was off and running again.

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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 28 May, 2012 - 10:59pm
Last updated 30 May, 2012 - 3:51pm

Moved
Moved from Featherwing[ed] Beetles.
… v belov, 29 May, 2012 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

great job, period.
… v belov, 28 May, 2012 - 11:01pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you! :)
Does it show what needs to be shown? This guy doesn't want to stay under for long! I think he was already kicking by my fourth shot.
… Ashley Bradford, 28 May, 2012 - 11:43pm login or register to post comments

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