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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Coleoptera</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Three Click Beetles</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/02/08/three-click-beetles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last winter, on March 16, 2011, a friend found this click beetle in his supply of wood for his wood-burning stove (Hi, Bill!). Since he thought it was odd to find an active beetle in what is, for us, still the middle of winter, he brought it to me to see if I had any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cellar Spider Eating a Clover Weevil</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/25/cellar-spider-eating-a-clover-weevil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another species (well, actually two species) that I&#8217;ve already posted before: on June 26, 2011, a cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides) on our back porch eaves was wrapping up a Clover weevil (Sitona hispidulus) that it had caught for its next meal. The previous cellar-spider pictures were, frankly, kind of lousy, so hopefully these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flower Longhorn, Probably from Wisconsin</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/12/31/flower-longhorn-probably-from-wisconsin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2011, we all took a weekend trip to Madison, Wisconsin[1]. When we got back, on July 11, we found this beetle in the car, crawling on our luggage. It could have been picked up anywhere along the way, but most likely it got into the car either when we stopped to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifteen-Spotted Giant Lady Beetle</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/10/08/fifteen-spotted-giant-lady-beetle/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/10/08/fifteen-spotted-giant-lady-beetle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lady beetles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 25, 2011, I was unlocking my bike to ride home from work when I spotted a large, dark lady beetle on a grass stem. So I caught it in one of the little jars that I carry with me, brought it home, and put it on the table until I had a chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daytime Fireflies</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/09/10/daytime-fireflies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We caught a number of these soft-winged beetles in broad daylight on July 12, 2011. They were just about a centimeter long, and pretty easy to catch and photograph. Which implies that they aren&#8217;t accustomed to fleeing from predators. Which further implies that they are not good to eat. These look to me like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weevil camouflaged as bird dropping</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/08/27/weevil-camouflaged-as-bird-dropping/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/08/27/weevil-camouflaged-as-bird-dropping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It squeaks! Here&#8217;s a beetle Sam found on the side of the house on June 27, 2011. She thought it was a bird dropping at first until it moved, and now she calls it a &#8220;Poo beetle&#8221;. From the elongated snout, it is clearly one of the snout beetles in the family Curculionidae, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pill Beetle</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/08/20/pill-beetle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam found this one walking across our sidewalk in front of the house on May 21, 2011. It was almost 1 cm long, slow-moving, heavily-armored, and would tuck itself into a neat little ball when disturbed. I thought at first it was some kind of scarab beetle, but scarab beetles have complex antennae that split [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carabid Ground Beetle Larva</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/08/06/carabid-ground-beetle-larva/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/08/06/carabid-ground-beetle-larva/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy found this large, active beetle larva under a rock in the garden on June 4, 2011. It was pretty big at about 3 cm long, but skinny and not enormous. Sam found two more a few days later, so they are certainly very common. It ran and ran and ran, so to have half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flatheaded Poplar Borer</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/23/flatheaded-poplar-borer/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/23/flatheaded-poplar-borer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Metallic wood borer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We found this beetle on July 31, 2010 on the side of the house. It was very similar to this one that I posted back in May 2009, but not identical: the previous one had a stronger metallic color, a slightly differently-shaped head and pronotum (the plate just behind the head), and looks to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Dung Beetle &#8211; Calamosternus</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/09/small-dung-beetle-calamosternus/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/09/small-dung-beetle-calamosternus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam found this little (only about 5 mm long) beetle for me on May 21, 2011 (Yes! It is from this year!). It was determined to make life difficult for me by running around, so this is the best shot I could get while it was upright. Once upside down, it seemed more or less [...]]]></description>
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