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Small beetle like insect - Clastoptera proteus
Copyright © 2015 Marjorie Melnick

Small beetle like insect - Clastoptera proteus
Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 29, 2015
Size: The head of a pin
Very tiny and seemed to have a hard covering, like a lady bug.

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Contributed by Marjorie Melnick on 29 June, 2015 - 8:05pm
Last updated 3 July, 2015 - 12:51am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 3 July, 2015 - 12:50am login or register to post comments

Please be sure to crop your pics...
...as close to "just the bug" as possible.

Only you and the editors have the ability to "zoom in" and see the full-size image. Everyone else is left looking at a tiny bug in a lot of unnecessary background.

You can click on "edit" and simply upload cropped versions. They will replace the current pics.

Thanks!
… Ken Wolgemuth, 29 June, 2015 - 8:25pm login or register to post comments

Clastoptera, methinks
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… metrioptera, 29 June, 2015 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

 
That must be it!
Are these the ones responsible for the mass of bubbles one finds along the way?
… Marjorie Melnick, 29 June, 2015 - 8:14pm login or register to post comments

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