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on flower of vachellia sp. Small tree on bank of dry river.

Acmaeodera flavomarginata mating with other species
Timberlake Biological Research Station Mills Co.

mating

Taken from beating Creosote

Ranch
Beat from Prosopis glandulosa

Images taken as part of an insect biodiversity survey of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in cooperation with NPS. Any insect handling, collection, or off-trail activity was under permit.

@pleacoma was the only one successful at catching these. Super flighty!

Espécimen recolectado, colección IIBZ. Alimentándose de flores

Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park, Mojave Desert, Inyo County, California

Taken on Ephedra aspera

Det. J.A. Hansen, 2019
coll'ed by A.W. Hook, Bio. No. 2-90
spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2016
spmn in the TAMUIC

Beautiful beetles, the photo does them no justice. Two of them were sitting on this twig--they buzzed off as I approached.

Body length - 7.5mm.

Det. G. Walters
coll'ed by G. C. Walters
spmn in the DJHC collection, Houston, TX

Det. Richard L. Westcott, 2011
coll'ed by A.W. Hook, J. Neff
spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX

Det. G. H. Nelson, 1972
coll'ed by G. H. Nelson, on 6" lavernder legume flowers
spmn in the DJHC collection, Houston, TX

On Mirabilis

Det. S. G. Wellso
coll'ed by A.W. Hook
spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX

Det. E.G. Riley, 2010
coll'ed by D. Heffern & B. Raber
spmn in the TAMUIC

Det. S. G. Wellso
spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX

Holotype. Mexico: Mexico, 7.4 km NW Temescaltepec, 2148 m, 20.08.1991, W.F. Barr, oak-pine forest.

A near immaculate form

Body length - 15.5mm.

Joshua Tree
Roadside flowers

@silversea_starsong Made me post it =)

On Echinocereus reichenbachii ssp. perbellus. See observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80544573

Collected with 5 other species of Buprestidae