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dung beetle - Onthophagus taurus
Copyright © 2007 Tim Moyer

dung beetle - Onthophagus taurus
Medford, (~25 miles east of Philadelphia, PA) Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
July 22, 2007
Size: ~10mm
waving for the camera

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Contributed by Tim Moyer on 27 July, 2007 - 10:21pm
Last updated 14 July, 2014 - 10:00am

Moved
Moved from Onthophagus.
… Tim Moyer, 6 August, 2007 - 11:17am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dung Beetles.
… Tim Moyer, 6 August, 2007 - 11:09am login or register to post comments

Or
prompting you to pull it back to it's feet ;-)
… Stephen Luk, 27 July, 2007 - 10:34pm login or register to post comments

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