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Baly's Earth-boring Beetle

Geotrupes balyi

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28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Pennsylvania.January 15, February 18, March 22, April 35, May 53, June 26, July 19, August 18, September 22, October 20, November 14, December 14.
United States1,172
Canada359
Pennsylvania277
West Virginia226
New York192
Ontario123
Quebec98
Nova Scotia78
Massachusetts71
Maine69

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderBeetles · Coleoptera
FamilyEarth-boring Beetles · Geotrupidae
GenusGeotrupes

Sources

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