Tiger Beetles! (길앞잡이)

[happy1892]

I found a bunch of Tiger Beetles in a field around our church today. Here are videos. Enjoy.

Just the field and I.

 

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Me talking.

 

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[agent A]

i can't view any of them

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

Me either

 

[happy1892]

Oops, I made them private! I will change that.

 

[mutrok4040]

Same here :huh:

 

[happy1892]

OK, now you guys can probably see them.

 

[mutrok4040]

I can. In my backyard (which is a huge forest) I cant find any insects unless I flip rocks!! Praying mantids are almost non-existent here. I see deer in my yard more than praying mantids.

 

[happy1892]

I can. In my backyard (which is a huge forest) I cant find any insects unless I flip rocks!! Praying mantids are almost non-existent here. I see deer in my yard more than praying mantids.

Where do you live? Chinese Mantids live just about every where that has tall grass without pesticides.

 

[mutrok4040]

North Georgia.

 

[happy1892]

North Georgia.

There should be Chinese Mantids there but I do not know. Oh, and if you want to find Chinese Mantids you should go into tall grass in a field with lots of grasshoppers and other insects.

 

[happy1892]

I think these Tiger Beetles are Cicindela rufiventris. I will ask on BugGuid.net.

 

[happy1892]

Three of them escaped today. No worry it will be very easy to catch more of these because they are very common. I put burger meat in their containers and they ate some of it. I found out that their bite will not hurt me. I wish I knew that when I lost that one Tiger Beetle because I could have easily caught it when ran out of the container! The other two were lost because the wind blew of the lid of one of the containers. I kept them in the sun for a few minutes and it got steaming hot in their containers but they were alright. So I have two Tiger Beetles. They like to squeeze into cracks and go under things. I will post pictures of them soon.

 

[ismart]

Caught this little guy in Connecticut last weekend.

 

[agent A]

Caught this little guy in Connecticut last weekend.

U went to Connecticut without telling me??

 

[ismart]

U went to Connecticut without telling me??

I go to Connecticut quite often. My sister lives in Sherman.