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Field Notes

Description:

Found it playing mini golf.

Habitat:

Outdoors.

Notes:

Black bug. About the size of a golf ball.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
LivanEscudero
Looks like a Scarab Beetle of some kind. But it's hard to see details to narrow it down. I think it is safely in the Superfamily Scarabaeoidea. See here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/40609/bgpage?from=5 Oh, and it's an arthropod so you can change the symbol from starfish to dragonfly.

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PublishedJune 22, 2012

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