Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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0: Gazillions of them! :shock:

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Medium beetle, 2cm, Marloth:



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Richprins wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:07 pm Medium beetle, 2cm, Marloth:



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This is very cool sighting O\/ O\/ O\/

Now you have to Id it.

Look at the antennae and you get the family!


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Dung beetle -O-


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Lisbeth wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:01 pmDung beetle -O-
Not a dung beetle, but the same family!


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Black beetle?


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What is a black beetle?


So far we know that it is the family Scarabidae.

Next level is to get the subfamily.


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There is a species called African black beetle -O-


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Toktokkie? -O-


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