27 May 2013
Monday macrobug: a purple beetle
Posted by Callan Bentley
Found this fellow while weed-whacking thistles last week…
A lovely iridescent purple – the photos don’t really capture it.
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Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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I just found one in my field in central Virginia. Did you get the name of the beetle? The one I found was almost indigo purple.
have you had any sucess on finding out what kind of bug this is?
it is a Dicaelus Purpuratus in the Ground Beetle Family! 🙂