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tiny beetle - Ateuchus
Copyright © 2016 ErinM31

tiny beetle - Ateuchus
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
May 1, 2016
Size: <5 mm
This beetle seems to be able to withdraw it's head, as you can see here. The beetle was non-responsive at this point and I wondered whether it was even alive, which was its strategy, as it was crawling about, evidently alive and well this morning.
Contributed by ErinM31 on 2 May, 2016 - 11:31pm
Last updated 14 May, 2016 - 5:46am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Brad Barnd, 3 May, 2016 - 1:34am

Scarabaeidae, I think
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… Aaron Hunt, 3 May, 2016 - 1:30am

 
looks right to me
Thank you for the ID! :)
… ErinM31, 3 May, 2016 - 8:04am

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