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Fungus Beetle

Fungus Beetle

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Field Notes

Description:

-Round and small
-Black with four yellow spots that stand out
-About an inch
-Hard shiny pair of wing cases
-Found under fungi feeding on spores
-spores come off as dust to us if you hold the fungi
-"spores are to fungi like seeds are to plants"

Habitat:

Under fungi feeding on their spores

Species ID Suggestions

Handsome Fungus Beetle

Eumorphus Marginatus

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