Mysterious Happenings - Meloe campanicollis Lothian, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA April 29, 2007 Size: an inch?
Patuxent River microdesert habitat (xeric Maryland Coastal Plain), sandy soils. Larger insect moving at a pretty good clip and hard to photograph. Pictures have been edited-shadows decreased so that you can see the smaller black beetles (?) on the larger black insect. Otherwise they'd all seem even blacker than shown.
Images of this individual: tag all Contributed by Sara Tangren on 5 February, 2011 - 9:55pm Last updated 28 May, 2011 - 10:17am |