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Post by bugman7 on Jul 20, 2019 14:43:21 GMT -8
Hello all. As I am planning a trip to French Guiana next year, I am researching the habits and distribution of my top priority species; Coprophanaeus lancifer. If anyone has knowledge/experience with this beetle and doesn't mind sharing this knowledge, I would be extremely grateful! Thanks so much!
Mike Seth
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Post by bichos on Jul 20, 2019 22:37:54 GMT -8
Hello all. As I am planning a trip to French Guiana next year, I am researching the habits and distribution of my top priority species; Coprophanaeus lancifer. If anyone has knowledge/experience with this beetle and doesn't mind sharing this knowledge, I would be extremely grateful! Thanks so much! Mike Seth Is it true they fly to carrion, rather than poop? |
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Post by bichos on Jul 20, 2019 22:42:33 GMT -8
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Post by leptraps on Jul 21, 2019 15:41:41 GMT -8
Many years ago I some became the owner of a BA beetle. It was/is a Coprophanaeus lancifer. Even dead and dried out I weighs a little over 5 ounces.
I keep it in a box of "whow" bugs.
When I was 13/14, a missionary from our church served in Brazil. He brought me several large beetle grubs/larvae. They were the size of hot dogs. My Dad got a 30 gallon drum and a dead rotten tree stump. Leaves and sticks went in first followed by the rotting stump. My Dad got a piece of plate glass to cover the barrel. A small lamp was placed inside the barrel at the very top.
My bug room with my collection was in the basement. It was just before Thanksgiving and I was spreading butterflies when I heard this scratching, when I went to investigate, there was this huge beetle at the top of the barrel wanting out. I could not believe the power of the beetle. He/she could almost lift the plate glass over the of the drum.
My high school biology teacher was dumbfounded by the size and power of the Beetles.
I did not have a killing jar big enough to put the in. I finally put then in a small wooden cigar box and into the freezer.
I pinned and mounted them and I kept them in a drawer with some other "WOW" bugs.In the late 1980 I took them to a Lepidopterests meeting as a show and tell. I traded them for several hundred specimens of western Speyeria and a large assortment of Checker Spots.
That is about as close as I ever came to being a Coleopterists.
I still stick pins in Beetles from my traps. I also stick pins in Diptera, hymenoptera and Vespidae, or just about any large ugly bug. Unfortunately, I have so called friends who collect them.
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Post by foxxdoc on Jul 22, 2019 10:06:11 GMT -8
are you going alone or with a planned group ?
where are you staying ?
details !!!!!!!!!!!!
tom
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Post by bichos on Jul 23, 2019 3:12:50 GMT -8
I think you need to get some special equipment like binoculars which can be useful tool for yourself. I often use binoculars for watching birds or deer hunting. Please help us understand how binoculars could help catch Coprophanaeus? |
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