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Any ideas? - Galerita

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

answered in the Forums
here. 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.

 
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

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

perhaps a Galerita larva

 
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?

 
sure is
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