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Iridescent small green beetle. About 1/2 in long. From Mississippi.
Lake area.
Spotted on Apr 27, 2013
Submitted on Apr 27, 2013
4 Comments
Nice spotting. Welcome to PN
Tiger beetle! Beautiful!
Thank you, LivanEscudero! Trying to help my daughter with a school project:)
It is a Tiger Beetle, but there are so many of them and so many similar ones that I am not at all sure as to species. I think it is something similar to if not this one:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/464129
I picked it for being one of the ones posted on bugguide from Mississippi, but feel free to look through these:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/563/bgpage...