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Ground beetle - Harpalus sp
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Taken at the Wetland centre, Llanelli on 06-May-08

Also known as the Strawberry beetle because of its love of fruit.
· Date: Tue May 6, 2008 · Views: 626
· Filesize: 56.8kb, 574.1kb · Dimensions: 900 x 735 ·
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Paul mabbott

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Thu July 10, 2008 4:20am

No, this is a Harpalus sp - can't really say which from this. How long was it?

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welsh.lensman

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Thu July 10, 2008 2:04pm

It was about one and a half cm. as far as I can remember, sorry I can't be more specific, but at my age I'm lucky to see anything of that size in the first place.

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