Darkling Beetle on Grand Canyon South Rim

by Gregory Scott

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Darkling Beetle on Grand Canyon South Rim

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Gregory Scott

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Photograph - Photograph

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Darkling Beetle, Eleodes obscurus, or pehaps a close relative of that species. This looks like Eleodes Obscurus, but with a much coarser pitted rear end and thorax.


In the western USA this beetle is called a "stink bug" because when they are bothered they put
their rear end up and make a bad smell. I've read that there is a mouse that will catch them, stick their backside into the ground, and then eat the bug from the top down. Mammal power!

I photographed this beetle right on the edge of the south rim of the Grand Canyon.

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July 17th, 2013

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