Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter
Project Noah

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

beetle

Spotting Image 1
  • photo 1
  • photo

1 Species ID Suggestions

+2
Joseph29
Joseph29 6 years ago
American Oil Beetle
Meloe Americanus A Blister Beetle - Meloe americanus - Overview


Sign in to suggest organism ID

3 Comments

bill.schneekloth
bill.schneekloth 6 years ago

These are near an area that has many sweat (miner) bees in the spring

bill.schneekloth
bill.schneekloth 6 years ago

Thanks so much I will check out the link

Christine Y.
Christine Y. 6 years ago

Nice spotting! It's an oil beetle (Meloe sp.)....and, this is a male (they have bent antennae). This is probably either Meloe impressus or Meloe americanus. Here's a link: https://bugguide.net/node/view/303

Sign in to comment
bill.schneekloth
Spotted by
bill.schneekloth

Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA

Spotted on Nov 1, 2017
Submitted on Nov 1, 2017

Related Spottings

Beetle (???) Beetle (?) beetle Two beetles

Nearby Spottings

Solitary Sandpiper Unnamed spotting Spotting Hawk
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team