Fingernail Moon
7-7-16
Beetles: A staggering diversity of animals; they are the most abundant insects on Earth, with more than 350,000 species!!;
Long before bees came along, beetles were among the first insects to visit flowering plants some 200 MILLION YEARS AGO, and they still comprise the largest number of animal pollinators. They are hardly the most efficient, however. Eating and defecting their way through a flower - often spilling more pollen than they carry to the next one - beetles are known as "mess-and-soil pollinators."
Dung Beetle
Made with twisted balloons
(Photo by Captain Dave Howard, co-founder of the Friends of Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges, and Dave's wife and co-founder as well, Barb, is sitting one the left under the shark)
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