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Albatrossity2



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 26 2009,11:28   

In my old back yard, where my daughter lives now, she took this picture of a beetle.



According to someone who should know (John Pinto, an expert on the genus), this is the oil/blister beetle Meloe campanicollis, and is the first record of the species in the state of Kansas.

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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
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