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Nosoderma diabolicum - Phloeodes diabolicus

Nosoderma diabolicum - Phloeodes diabolicus
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
June 20, 2008
Size: 22 mm
Collected (6/20/08) in remnant Southern Oak Woodland at the gardens.
Currently in my live collection, and photographed 7/2/08.

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I've still got mine from Christmas.
It's in a container full of various teneb. species, some of which have proven quite prolific, their larvae scampering all over in the container. I toss some rolled oats in one end of the container and squirt a little water in the other end every so often.

 
Rolled oats -
hey that's a great idea, Jim! Thanks!

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