I know this is fairly similar to You know you’re seriously into iNat when but it is a bit more specific. How do you know when you are seriously into beetles? Here are a few answers. You have more books about them than you can count. You can name over 200 Coleopterans when asked. You Make projec…

It’s ok . I can quit anytime I want…

Today I took a picture of some camas flowers, and it wasn’t a very good picture, but then I was looking at it and saw a little black and red blob, and wondered if it was a beetle…

[image] person: you got for free in your last trade I knew about seed trading, but TIL about beetle trading. :)

You join the iNaturalist Discord Server and participate in our Citizen DNA Barcoding Project which includes identifying target beetle species and collecting specimens for DNA barcoding (hint, hint).

I’m almost afraid to ask: Do you buy jewelry with scarab beetles for your partner?

Can you explain the 5th one a little more please? Are you saying there are people exchanging beetle genitalia, and then identifying the species without having the rest of the beetle to guide them? Do you have any other clues, such as “This batch is from hydrophilids”?

Gotta feel sorry for all those beetles running around out there without their genitalia. The Eunuchidae.

Don’t have one at the moment. : I But nope, I wouldn’t do that.

Which species? And where is this server?

I got a few containers filled with old carabidae genitalia a while ago, and the guy I got it from didn’t even know where or when he got them, and had no use for them, so he sent them with the specimens I was originally trading for, and said I didn’t need to give anything in exchange for them. So, …

Here's how you know when you are seriously into beetles

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lotteryd May 8, 2021, 12:05pm 4

I knew about seed trading, but TIL about beetle trading. :)

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