Thursday: 18 May 2006
The wonderfully cool weather of the last week (2-4 degF below average for this time of May) has continued.
They grappled briefly and then fell into the uncharted depths below.
Sex or cannibalism? You decide. Tiger beetles are voracious predators. Even the sound of the scientific name, Cicindela sextaguttata, merely accentuates the mystery.
 | Skulking through the floodplain of Woodvamp Alley yesterday I came across this dramatic little tableau unfolding on a split rotting log. Two Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetles were on opposite sides of a gaping chasm. The one at the bottom of the photo had two extra white spots on the dorsal that the other lacked, and was relatively quiet. The other one that became increasingly agitated over a period of a few minutes. Then it leapt the chasm. |
They grappled briefly and then fell into the uncharted depths below.
Sex or cannibalism? You decide. Tiger beetles are voracious predators. Even the sound of the scientific name, Cicindela sextaguttata, merely accentuates the mystery.
