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On 5/1/2011 9:29 PM, Darrell wrote:
> /Found this weird insect of some sort, could not find anything to
> confirm an ID so wondering if any of you folks could help me out./
* that would be your larval Fire-fly or Blink Beetle, Lampyridae. On the
lateral shot you can see the glow-in-the-dark terminal segments on the
abdomen. When I was a lad I thought I'd discovered a bioluminescent
Sowbug when I first found them.
fred.
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> /It's head retracts, in the second image of it you can see it's head
> half way out. It's about 2.5 cm in length and very slow moving, found it
> on my lawn while looking at some ants and just happened to see it./
> //
> /Crazy looking critter, click on image to get a larger version and then
> maybe increase you browser to 125% or 150% to get an even larger view./
> /http://abolitphotos.exposuremanager.com/g/insects_spiders/
> //
> /On the bird scene, many tree swallows are coming in now, ospreys, loons
> all over. Never seen any warblers yet./
> //
> /All the best,/
> /Darrell/
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fred schueler
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition -
http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm
Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
(613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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