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Fiery Searcher Beetle (Calosoma scrutator) or C. wilcoxi ? Found in an empty glass bowl on my front porch, covered in pollen (it is awful right now). This guy was not in the mood to be photographed! Please excuse the glare from the glass and pollen! Calosoma scrutator,Geotagged,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Fiery Searcher Beetle (Calosoma scrutator) or C. wilcoxi ?

Found in an empty glass bowl on my front porch, covered in pollen (it is awful right now). This guy was not in the mood to be photographed! Please excuse the glare from the glass and pollen!

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  1. View Christine Young's profile
    Christine Young
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    Oh wow, you weren't joking about your high pollen counts! We are still weeks away from this. Posted 5 years ago
    1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
      Ferdy Christant
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      Never seen this much either. With these numbers of pollen, every living creature seems a pollinator. Clever. Posted 5 years ago
      1. View Flown Kimmerling's profile
        Flown Kimmerling
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        We are just getting started here with pollen season. UGH! I'm hoping it goes by fast so I can go outside without a mask! Posted 5 years ago
        1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
          Ferdy Christant
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          I can't relate as I'm fully tolerant of it, but I sympathize! Posted 5 years ago
          1. View Christine Young's profile
            Christine Young
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            I like your mask, Lisa...Mine doesn't have that black circle thing on the front, but it does have changeable filters. Posted 5 years ago
  3. View Pudding4brains's profile
    Pudding4brains
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    Hi Lisa, have a read here:
    https://bugguide.net/node/view/368986
    Size, colour contrast between elytra and pronotum and shape of the scape ... do you have that on other images?
    (from the one image I'm guessing wilcoxi)     Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago
    1. View Flown Kimmerling's profile
      Flown Kimmerling
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      I will double check those features. Thanks. I do have other images. Posted 5 years ago

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The Fiery Searcher Beetle

''Calosoma scrutator'' is a species of ground beetle belonging to the genus ''Calosoma'', subgenus ''Acalosoma''. This beetle can be as large as 35 millimetres long. The distribution of this species is relatively widespread, but it is nonetheless uncommon in North America. The adult beetle is known to excrete a foul-smelling oil when it is handled. The oil has been described as smelling similar to rotten milk or rancid olive oil.

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By Flown Kimmerling

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Uploaded Mar 30, 2020. Captured Mar 29, 2020 15:30 in 234 Oakman Rd NE, Ranger, GA 30734, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 6D Mark II
  • f/22.0
  • 1/41s
  • ISO400
  • 100mm

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