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Exotic Scarabs Mating

Posted by March 20th, 2006 at 1:00 am

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Hello!
I just have to say that I LOVE your site. I noticed you put up a “bug love” section… I have a photo to contribute. This is a photo I took of two mating beetles at the Seattle Zoo. I actually took a photo of the entire beetle exhibit, but didn’t notice THESE two going at it until after I got home and took a closer look at the photos. So I cropped the large photo down to include just the two lovers for your bug love page. However, I didn’t write down the name of the beetles from the exhibit.. and forgot what species they were.
sincerely,
brenda

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Hi Brenda,
What a nice image to begin the first day of spring. We are relatively certain one of our readers will be able to provide a name for your amorous exotic Scarab Beetles.

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  1. Adrian Ruicanescu wrote:

    It belongs to the African genus Mecynorrhina, probably M. torquata ugadensis.

    Posted 15 May 2009 at 2:30 pm

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