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snout beetle

by John Tobias

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted June 23, 201479 views1 comments
Snout beetles get their name from their frontal protuberance. This "beetle" is one of two that target the wild white indigo plant. The color ring around the indigo is a marker used to ID this plant.

Canon SL1
1/250 @ F-10 ISO 800
Canon EF-100mm 2.8 macro USM
HH

Comments

1 comments
Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on June 24, 2014 at 9:47 PM
Hi, Its a pretty good image for hand-held. You could rubber stamp out the magenta marker band to improve the photo. Otherwise, I'm glad to see a member of the Apionidae on its host plant...................Jim
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