Grateful Days

By Nickimags888

Tiny Tuesday - Tiny Beetle at the AOG

This one of the sniffer beetles found at the AOG doing the rounds of the team bases. They sniff out banned substances and report back to headquarters. Let's hope they're unsuccessful today so the games can continue as normal.

I love these little guys as they are so cute looking at about 5mm long, including the antennae. I've had an id from a local facebook group and it's a cereal leaf beetle "an Oulema sp of leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) ... and is either O. rufocyanea or O. melanopus but is very tricky and unreliable to separate these 2 species from photos." Such a shame it's a pest as it's quite cute for a beetle.
A note from osuzanna about today's Tiny Tuesday : "There are 5 Tuesdays in August and this week I (osuzanna) have some unexpected travel so I think it might be a good week to have another round of “Blipper’s Choice,” where you will actually get to vote as to who should receive hearts for their Macro entries into Tiny Tuesday. I encourage all entrants to browse through the images that are posted with the tag TT64 and send your top two selections to me as a comment by no later than Thursday midnight Eastern Daylight time (US). I will post the results with my blip on Friday.
Be sure to use the tag TT64 and pass the word around."

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