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Tumbling Flower Beetle

Photo by Jacob Gorneau
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Field Notes

Description:

This wonderful group of very small beetles are characterized by a long "stinger" which is not actually a stinger, and the tumbling behavior of this beetle when provoked.

Habitat:

Found in a swampland prairie at Irwin Prairie State Nature Preserve.

Notes:

Lifer!

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