Dear Tweeters,

Thanks again for all the Tweeters who helped identify the enormous
beetle as a ten-lined June Beetle or Giant Chafer!

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming (BIRDS!).

Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch ? Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit County), USA ? garybletsch at yahoo.com ? ?


--- Rob Sandelin <floriferous at msn.com> schrieb am Fr, 31.7.2009:

> Von: Rob Sandelin <floriferous at msn.com>
> Betreff: RE: [Tweeters] off-topic beetle question
> An: "'Gary Bletsch'" <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
> Datum: Freitag, 31. Juli 2009, 22:15
> Ten lined june beetle is likely. You
> can see one on my online field guide
> beetle page at:
> http://share3.esd105.wednet.edu/rsandelin/Fieldguide/Animalpages/Insects/Bee
> tles.htm
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Naturalist, Writer, Teacher
> Snohomish County
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu
> [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu]
> On Behalf Of Gary
> Bletsch
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:21 PM
> To: tweeters tweeters
> Subject: [Tweeters] off-topic beetle question
>
> Dear Tweeters,
>
> This evening at about 10:00 P.M., one of our dogs started
> chasing after a
> very large beetle. This insect had flown down to our
> driveway near Lyman
> (Skagit County) during a windy spell--thunderstorms to the
> east of us.
>
> It had to be the biggest beetle I have seen anywhere around
> here. It
> reminded me of pictures I'd seen of the Colorado potato
> beetle, but a
> Wikipedia article stated that those get to be only about
> ten millimeters in
> size.
>
> The beetle at my house had to be thirty to forty
> millimeters in length. It
> was roughly bullet-shaped, with bold yellow longitudinal
> stripes on its
> elytra (if that's what you call the hard things that cover
> the wings). The
> shape of the insect was more bullet- or torpedo-like, and
> not so
> Volkswagen-like, compared to the online photos I saw of the
> Colorado potato
> beetle. The forelegs had some spiny-looking projections on
> them.
>
> I didn't want the dog to hurt it--or get sick eating it--so
> I tossed it up
> into the wind, and it flew off.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Yours truly,
>
>
> Gary Bletsch? ?? Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit
> County), USA? ?
> garybletsch at yahoo.com?
> ?? ?
>
>
> ? ? ?
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