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Any ideas? -
Galerita
Clear Spring, Washington County, Maryland, USA
July 1, 2015
Found this while i was sitting outside trapping insects coming into the light. was crawling across the concrete. Any ideas guys?
Thanks Frank
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on 16 August, 2015 - 4:58pm
Last updated 24 August, 2015 - 7:54am
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. Identifying a specimen to species can be very challenging and is not always possible from a photograph. An expert might have to have the specimen in hand to identify the species. Sometimes we have to be happy just knowing the genus.
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john and jane balaban
, 25 August, 2015 - 4:16pm
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Thank you! :) that makes me f
Thank you! :) that makes me feel better about just having a genus, but i little worse knowing that some of them will be incomplete...i have a touch of ocd i guess. lol
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, 26 August, 2015 - 8:20pm
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Moved
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John S. Ascher
, 24 August, 2015 - 7:54am
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perhaps a Galerita larva
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metrioptera
, 16 August, 2015 - 5:40pm
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thanks
Awesome! Thank you!
i have a false bombardier beetle too. It is amazing the transformation.
But i have a question...Galerita is the first name. how would i go about finding the second part of the name? or is there one?
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entity
, 25 August, 2015 - 3:38pm
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sure is
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, 17 August, 2015 - 11:39am
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