1 Fiddler Beetle at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Eupoecila australasiae | 26 Nov 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Eupoecila australasiae | 26 Nov 2017 | AlisonMilton |
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Update to posting of 19 November 2017. I've been watching the broken larvae casing, but not every day thinking it best to leave it alone. Just checked it a few moments ago with perfect timing. The metamorphosis is complete and when I took it outside to photograph I was blessed with being able to watch the beetle turn in the casing. I then videoed it emerging into the world and taking its first steps. An amazing experience. Now just have to wait for the other two unbroken casings.
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MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
13 Apr 2018
The judges highly commended this sighting in the 2018 Canberra Nature Map photographic competition
Location information
- Coordinates 149.029519-35.238195
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 26 Nov 2017 12:00 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Eupoecila australasiae Scientific name
- Fiddler Beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1066.71m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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