A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI
Posts tagged ‘Found in road’
This is a beetle, not a moth. No, really!
This poor fellow had an unfortunate encounter with a car on September 23, and I found it dead on the side of the road.
Even though it looks like a moth at first glance, it has some very un-moth-like characteristics. The orange-and-black forewings are thick and leathery, while the hindwings are membranous and transparent.
We’d all just come into the house after going for a walk, and I heard Sam shouting from the kitchen “Mom, Mom, a beetle! A beetle!”, and then I heard S_ reply, “A beetle? Where is . . . Holy Cow!” So I come over to look, and they’ve got this huge scarab beetle, just about two inches long[1].
While coming up the hill on my way home from work[1], I spotted what looked, at first, like a medium-sized ant. It didn’t look quite right, though, so I caught it and brought it home. It turned out to be this:
