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Gold-and-brown Rove Beetle (Ontholestes cingulatus)
Photo#1317071
Copyright © 2016
Owen Davids
Ontholestes cingulatus? -
Ontholestes cingulatus
Metcalf Bottoms Trail, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
August 27, 2016
Found on a dead tree stump with lots of rotting mushy fungi
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Contributed by
Owen Davids
on 25 November, 2016 - 5:29pm
Last updated 7 January, 2017 - 6:20pm
Moved, let's keep it :)
Moved from
Beetles
.
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Blaine Mathison
, 7 January, 2017 - 6:20pm
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sounds good to me
:-)
Truth be told I wish my parents bought me a refurbished Canon Sl1 instead of a T6 due to terrible frame rate for macros.
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Owen Davids
, 7 January, 2017 - 6:23pm
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yup
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Blaine Mathison
, 25 November, 2016 - 8:23pm
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Should I frass?
Wondering if this one should be frassed or not. The image quality is pretty bad, but there are only five pictures of this guy on here for TN on two different occasions. With that being said, both are in Sevier County, both are in the G.S.M.N.P., and one was photographed in August.
I am wondering if the rarity of the insect should veto a frass. I keep records of all of this stuff anyway, so it's not like I will have to repost this image again to ask what it is. Anyway, just wonderin' so do what you would like with it :-P
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Owen Davids
, 25 November, 2016 - 8:40pm
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I keep waffling on whether to frass these or not
I typically frass less-than-idea images, and frankly most BG data points are not relevant unless they become voucher-ID'd specimens in a reference collection
The number of images in BugGuide by NO means reflect an organism's rarity/abundance in nature or even collections. Images on BG are random records of random insects happen to be captured by someone who happens to be at a given place/time. Way too much emphasis if put on BG data points.
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Blaine Mathison
, 27 November, 2016 - 9:16am
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