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Scooped Scarab

Onthophagus hecate

Photo by jess.blank
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Field Notes

Notes:

This ID is my best guess.

Reference: http://bugguide.net/node/view/3671/bgimage

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Comments (2)
jess.blank
Thanks for the link :) I will check it out!
mredria
you might find the right one here. http://www.texasento.net/beetles.htm i tried looking myself but i got the shivers and had to stop. Dung beetles are my favourite bugs and they still make me itch when i look at them. >_<

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