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Pleasing fungus beetle

Thallis compta

Description:

A small bright orange and black beetle. There were several on this ghost fungus.

Habitat:

Feeding on fungus within the Bendigo botanical gardens.

Notes:

This beetle has been eating the poisonous ghost fungus http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/386... http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/sh...

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MartinL
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MartinL

Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Sep 14, 2013
Submitted on Sep 14, 2013

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