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We just found a beetle on our front porch in Flowood, MS that looks a good bit like the Cotalpa Consobrina in your entry of 6-9-04 from Diana Isham, Grantsburg Wisconsin. I’ve included a picture of ours–sorry for the blurriness. Are we correct?
Gordon
Hi Gordon,
In our opinion, you have the correct genus but the wrong species. Cotalpa consobrina is native to Arizona. The eastern species is the Goldsmith Beetle, Cotalpa lanigera. Literary historians are relatively certain this is the beetle imortalized in Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Gold Bug.
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