After the Rain - _TNY_5008
Out for a walk right after a rainfall, my wife spotted this beetle for me when it was running across the road.
Identification was made trickier by the fact that the entire beetle was quite wet from the rain,but it turned out to be a carrion beetle known as Silpha tristis.
This is a species with a distribution in Europe and part of Asia, but it was also accidentally introduced in eastern Canada and is now an established species in the Quebec region.
After the Rain - _TNY_5008
Out for a walk right after a rainfall, my wife spotted this beetle for me when it was running across the road.
Identification was made trickier by the fact that the entire beetle was quite wet from the rain,but it turned out to be a carrion beetle known as Silpha tristis.
This is a species with a distribution in Europe and part of Asia, but it was also accidentally introduced in eastern Canada and is now an established species in the Quebec region.