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Black Carpet Beetle

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Field Notes

Description:

Black Carpet Beetle

Habitat:

Doing circles on the showroom floor.

Notes:

Soon as I touched the lil guy, he started making little puffing sounds. They squeeze air between their back and wings to make this noise. I also took some video of him huffing and puffing away!

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PublishedApril 12, 2011

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