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Scared large blister beetle - Meloe
Copyright © 2016 Timothy Reichard

Scared large blister beetle - Meloe
Glendening Nature Preserve, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
April 18, 2016
Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 3 May, 2016 - 6:58am
Last updated 3 May, 2016 - 9:47am

Moved, Meloe sp. (not sure if further ID-able)
Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 3 May, 2016 - 9:47am

 
Another view
I found a side view of the same individual taken by another photographer:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2991079
Is that a view that would help with species ID?
… Timothy Reichard, 3 May, 2016 - 1:25pm

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