[Maine-birds] OT: tiger beetles

Mike Fahay suggested the black and white arthropods I've been finding at Popham beach were tiger beetles, and I believe he's correct.  Here's the bronze tiger beetle, found here in Maine.

http://eol.org/pages/289897/overview

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49679700@N07/8698032787/

I'll see if I can get a photo when next at Popham, as the beetles there seem whiter than those in these photos.  There are a couple species of beach tiger beetles along the Atlantic coast and it would interesting (to me at least) to discover which species/subspecies I've been seeing.  These beetles are common along the inner estuary at Popham and you might take a look should be there.  From a distance they resemble small whitish crabs, but they belong to a different Arthropod order :).

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