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Turtletagger
Wild Member
Registered: December 2005
Location: Heswall, Merseyside
Posts: 232
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Sun April 30, 2006 2:26pm
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I just saw one of these in a program with Bill Oddy in the New Forest. It's a male Dung Beetle.
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Fourwings
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: September 2005
Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 4,438
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Sun April 30, 2006 2:57pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Turtletagger
I just saw one of these in a program with Bill Oddy in the New Forest. It's a male Dung Beetle.
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Spot on Turtletagger, the Dor beetle is the UK's commonest species of Dung Beetle. 
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Steve..
My website - http://fourwings.zenfolio.com/
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Jon
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: March 2006
Location: Wirral
Posts: 2,194
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Sun April 30, 2006 3:14pm
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Excellent shot, just a tad more DOF required, otherwise excellente sir! Jon
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We may "see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower" William Blake
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glsammy
Moderator
Registered: October 2005
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 15,069
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Sun April 30, 2006 7:42pm
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Another one that to me looks perfect, with amazing detail, especially the legs..complete with dung by the looks of it..
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Graham
My WAB Gallery.
My Flickr Gallery.
My Web Site.
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crisscross
Officer of the Wild Empire
Registered: November 2005
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 909
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fantastic detail
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Chris
own gallery at pbase.com/crisscross
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Mark43
Officer of the Wild Empire
Registered: January 2006
Location: Crawley,Sussex
Posts: 943
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Amazing shot..........amazing looking beetle.
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