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Amazing discoveries from Wellington’s City Nature Challenge 2022 » Syrphetodes marginatus beetle

A brown beetle on a tree trunk

There is amazing detail on this Syrphetodes marginatus beetle  – zoom in to see individual scales. Photo by Dougal Townsend,  via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC 4.0Read more

There is amazing detail on this Syrphetodes marginatus beetle https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/113738991 photo – zoom in to see individual scales. Photo by Dougal Townsend, CC BY-NC.

2022-05-10
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