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Pinacate

Photo by LuisStevens
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Field Notes

Description:

Pinacate beetles. I guess they are male and female. They lifted their abdomens for its defensive tactic of standing on its head and squirting a noxious spray. Luckly it didn't happened. I saw them at night.

Habitat:

Arid landscape.

Reference Links:

Pinacate beetle

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PublishedApril 11, 2015

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