orange-spotted monotomid - Rhizophagus sayi Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA November 14, 2008 Size: about 2.8 mm
I found a couple of these little slow-moving monotomid beetles under a loose patch of bark on a fairly fresh oak log. The position of the orange areas on the elytra make me think this is R. sayi. This one was missing an antenna but I made a vertical flipped copy of the image in PhotoShop, rotated, and lassoed and moved the good antenna from the copy over to the original, flattened the image, and clone-stamped to make the background blend in.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 15 November, 2008 - 7:11am Last updated 5 November, 2010 - 2:08pm |