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Weevil says:

November 1, 2009 at 9:26 am

Dear Scrubmuncher,
nice photos, especially the Symmorphus handling the Cionus larva. Could you please contact me – I would like to use your photo in a upcoming publication about weevils of central Europe, if you agree.
Cheers,

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Marc says:

January 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm

Dear Ross,

I’m really enjoying your photos. But the real reason i logged on is i’m looking for some pics i can use in our annual open house. There are no entrance fees, we will gain only interest from the public although we will of course post credit for all the media we use. May i have permission to use at least the photo of the pearlfish leaving the sea cucumber?

Thank You,

Marc

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Felipe Rego says:

March 28, 2010 at 9:38 am

Dear Dr. Ross,

Great Blog! Nice to read your news and comments!

P.S.: I noticed you the spider and the wasp body length and weight in an wrong way. I`m really sorry!

Here they are:

The wasp measured 5.4 cm and weighed 674 mg.

The aviculariine spider weighted 4.8 mg and had a total length of 9.3 cm.

The weight ratio between the spider-hunting wasp and the wasp was 6:1 and it is probable that the larvae would be a female.

My Best Regards,

Felipe Rego

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Rob says:

May 17, 2010 at 9:20 pm

Thank you for the link to this fascinating life history. I think you are right about Cryptocephalus aureolus being the one found on the the IoW.

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birdernaturalist says:

September 18, 2010 at 12:56 am

Great stuff, Ross. I hope to find time to catch up on the rest of your blog.

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Transvestite Rove Beetle from Costa Rica | What's That Bug? says:

September 23, 2010 at 2:24 am

[…] rove beetle posted as today’s “Strange black insect”, I get an excellent match at http://scrubmuncher.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/scoundrels-2/. This has to be a specimen of <i>Leistotrophus versicolor</i>, the Transvestite Rove […]

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Transvestite Rove Beetle from Costa Rica | What's That Bug? says:

September 23, 2010 at 2:24 am

[…] rove beetle posted as today’s “Strange black insect”, I get an excellent match at http://scrubmuncher.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/scoundrels-2/. This has to be a specimen of <i>Leistotrophus versicolor</i>, the Transvestite Rove […]

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Spooky spiders or awesome arachnids? | ZOO*3700's Blog says:

October 4, 2010 at 11:37 pm

[…] Piper, R. (2009). “Scoundrels – #3”. (Online). Scrubmuncher’s Blog. Accessed October 2nd, 2010 at http://scrubmuncher.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/scoundrels-3/ […]

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Cucumbers of the sea (Not for the use in salads!) | ZOO*3700's Blog says:

October 8, 2010 at 3:25 am

[…] Showing relationship between fish and leopard sea cucumber from http://scrubmuncher.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/more-poor-unfortunates/ […]

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Kurt says:

November 13, 2010 at 3:16 am

Hi Ross, wonderful blog you have here. Subscribed!

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Kurt says:

December 8, 2010 at 10:39 am

Absolutely fascinating wasp. Thanks for sharing this!

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1. scrubmuncher says:
  
  January 12, 2011 at 2:07 pm
  
  Glad you enjoyed it, Kurt.
  
  Ross
  
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Dave says:

January 9, 2011 at 11:29 pm

Fantastic blog, Scrubmuncher. You asked about images at a Parajapyx posting on another of my blogs. Feel free to contact me at my email if you are still interested.

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Kurt says:

January 18, 2011 at 11:59 am

Truly amazing altruistic acts by the soldiers. Thanks for sharing this wonderful, eyp opening info!

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Adrian Thysse says:

March 13, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Just found your blog through The Home Bug Garden…great articles, looking forward to more!

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1. scrubmuncher says:
  
  March 24, 2011 at 9:30 am
  
  Cheers, Adrian.
  
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The Sunday Bug Bash 2 | The Bug Whisperer says:

March 13, 2011 at 1:17 pm

[…] Unsporting ants from Scrubmuncher […]

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Kurt says:

July 29, 2011 at 10:22 am

Great post and very nice shot. How do we tell if the mites are parasitic or phorectic?

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1. scrubmuncher says:
  
  July 29, 2011 at 11:16 am
  
  Ta, Kurt. The phorectic mites are normally mobile and will scuttle all over the host, while the parasitic ones are normally stuck in one place with their mouthparts plugged into the hapless victim. I don’t know if you can see in the image, but the mites are clinging on with embedded mouthparts rather than with their legs.
  
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Kurt says:

August 1, 2011 at 3:26 pm

Great info and a fascinating read, Ross!

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1. scrubmuncher says:
  
  August 1, 2011 at 5:30 pm
  
  Thanks, Kurt. I saw some pleasing blister beetles in Borneo (Danum Rainforest Lodge). I’ll post a photo on this post. Let me know if you can put a genus to it.
  
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Transvestite Rove Beetle | What's That Bug? says:

August 20, 2011 at 2:32 pm

[…] from Costa Rica last September, and you can read that entertaining posting here. Here is what Scrubmuncher’s Blog has to say about the Transvestite Rove Beetle: “Interestingly, there are even transvestite […]

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Dave says:

August 20, 2011 at 5:02 pm

I never thought I’d see anything stranger than a male strepsipteron, but take a look at the monster at macromite:

http://macromite.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/meet-your-martian-overlord-photon-challenge-4/

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Dave says:

September 12, 2011 at 1:58 pm

Well, just to be the hippoboscids’ advocate for a moment, think how terrifying the gapping mouth of a martin must be to those decent, law-abiding flies flying about their business with no thoughts of ever bothering a bird. Seems only just that one group of flies has turned the tables.

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scrubmuncher says:

September 12, 2011 at 5:11 pm

You’re right, Dave. Here’s to the Hippoboscids.

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nstone says:

November 15, 2011 at 3:54 am

The first photo of the mimic octopus looks strikingly similar to the eye structures of mantis shrimp. Perhaps it could be impersonating one of these.

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Esteé Ellis says:

February 18, 2012 at 4:41 am

Good morning,
I received an adult swallow this morning, after checking to see that it can not fly properly and retrieving the poor thing, I saw this hideous parasite scuttling about on this poor bird. I removed it with some tweazers. Nasty thing! Does these parasites carry diseases? I am worried about the little swallow.
Greetings,
Esteé (from South Africa)

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Hans-Joachim Fluegel says:

March 26, 2012 at 6:18 am

Dear Ross,
I have the same question as Weevil has had. I would ask if you can give me the picture from Symmorphus handling the Cionus larva for a small publication about the wasps in a little region in Germany, North Hesse.
With best wishes, Hans-Joachim.

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1. scrubmuncher says:
  
  March 26, 2012 at 8:09 am
  
  Hello Hans-Joachim
  I’ll dig the original out and send it over today.
  Thanks
  Ross
  
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Adrian D. Thysse says:

June 28, 2012 at 11:46 am

A great sequence. NIce to see this type of behavior recorded.

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Lahcen Campbell says:

July 5, 2012 at 1:04 pm

To whom this concerns,

My name is Lahcen campbell, I write to you (hopefully the copyright holder of the above image of a lovely Kinorhyncha) as I would like permission to use this image in my already accepted PhD. thesis. I have been studying the evolution of Arthropods and their relatives (within Ecdysozoa) and I have a figure with this image included to represent the Kinorhyncha. If it is possible can I use this image with your full permission ? If you allow me, I will give full credit and reference the image author in my thesis. Please let me know as I would really like to use this image. Hope this is not too much to ask. Thanks for your attention.

Lahcen

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Adrian D. Thysse says:

July 6, 2012 at 11:40 pm

That’s amazing! Something I would expect to see in the tropics, not Herfordshire.

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rthepotter says:

September 20, 2012 at 8:18 pm

Amazing creatures!

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rthepotter says:

September 20, 2012 at 8:19 pm

– and photos, by the way.

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1. scrubmuncher says:
  
  September 23, 2012 at 3:57 pm
  
  Thanks, glad you like them.
  
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Revereche says:

October 12, 2012 at 6:13 pm

Incredible 😮

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rthepotter says:

October 12, 2012 at 7:57 pm

Yurk! – but interesting.

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Dom says:

October 16, 2012 at 8:29 am

What a very tricky thing to film – even for the BBC’s finest in a studio setup presumably!

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1. scrubmuncher says:
  
  October 16, 2012 at 9:00 am
  
  You’re not wrong, Dom. I presume it must have been a studio job as that wasp is pretty rare and you can see what’s going on below ground. By the way, I like your videos, especially the one of the burnet parasitoids. You even managed to get some footage of a Gelis sp. hyperparasitoid. What do you use to get that footage? Is it a DSLR and a macro lens? Ta. Ross
  
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  1. Dom says:
    
    October 17, 2012 at 11:06 am
    
    Hi Ross. Canon DSLR with 60mm Macro in very windy conditions unfortunately. One very good reason for using a studio if possible!
    
    Stills here:
    
    http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=26693731@N08&q=hyperparasitoid&m=text
    
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    1. scrubmuncher says:
      
      October 18, 2012 at 1:37 pm
      
      Thanks, Dom. I’ve got the same set-up, but I haven’t done much filming with it, apart from through the microscope. Nice stills of the the Gelis sp. by the way.
      
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  2. Dom says:
    
    October 18, 2012 at 8:38 pm
    
    The 600D with the swivel screen is a blessing for macro work and the 3x (lossless) movie crop mode is also very handy – turns the 60mm into the 180mm at a fraction of the price!
    
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    1. scrubmuncher says:
      
      October 18, 2012 at 9:55 pm
      
      Thanks, Dom. I have a 60D and I didn’t even know you could do movie crop with it. I’ll have to try it out.
      
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  3. Dom says:
    
    October 19, 2012 at 6:07 am
    
    I’m not sure if the 60D has the HD movie crop mode does it? Maybe they updated the firmware. The 600D was the best in the range for video when I bought it.
    
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    1. scrubmuncher says:
      
      October 19, 2012 at 9:07 am
      
      I tried it earlier and it does have this function. The telephoto effect is approx 7x with an image size of 640×480, so not HD.
      
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2. Dom says:
  
  October 19, 2012 at 10:31 am
  
  Yeah – that’s a different crop mode – I wouldn’t recommend using that one for macro work. The 600D and later models have a 1920×1080 Full HD crop mode at 3x magnification.
  
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Shannon Cross says:

October 17, 2012 at 12:22 pm

I found on a beach near my home in Santa Cruz, California a rock embedded with what I thought were fossilized horse teeth until I read this post. What i do have is a really nice pair of eye teeth from what appears to be from a pouch knife. If interested please contact me at Shannonc95006@gmail.com for pictures of my latest find from this one spot that I seem to dig up the greatest finds.
Sincerely;
Shannon

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Careers Cafe- December | ElizabethHopkinson says:

February 5, 2014 at 9:59 pm

[…] for many documentaries. He talks about his most recent publication on his website on this link: http://www.rosspiper.net/animal-earth-book-launch/. Below are some images from his book which show some of the incredible organisms Ross has studied […]
LA CREATIVIDAD DE DIOS. La diversidad en la Tierra | El Octavo Sabio | Revista Digital | helena-r-olmo says:

October 12, 2014 at 12:02 pm

[…] era su forma, más interés despertaba en Piper la criatura. Con ellas ha compuesto su libro “Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures”, una procesión de fauna extravagante y belleza deslumbrante. El propósito de este trabajo es […]
Boss Ross says:

July 17, 2015 at 4:21 pm

That’s incredible!
Surely they cannot action their own exit from the “tun”-state?
Are they re-hydrated by chance?

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Mark Wilson says:

March 16, 2016 at 2:28 pm

When I saw the bottom photo my brain said “ant.” Mostly the head of an ant that looks like it’s heading the opposite direction of the tree hopper.

My vote for a common name is the Christ-only-knows Treehopper.

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Victoria's blog | The Natural History Museum Student Conference says:

March 29, 2016 at 3:32 pm

[…] keynote speakers were Ross Piper, Zoologist, Entomologist, Author and Presenter and Iain Stewart, BBC Natural History Unit and […]
10 Incredibly Intricate Microscopic Organisms That Will Blow Your Mind - SuperbTopTens.com says:

February 22, 2017 at 8:05 am

[…] “For an animal so small and with only around 1,000 cells in its entire body, this structure is amazingly complex; an assemblage of muscles, ligaments, and toothed plates (trophi) all working together to macerate […]

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10 Incredibly Intricate Microscopic Organisms That Will Blow Your Mind | jollybuzz says:

February 22, 2017 at 8:47 am

[…] “For an animal so small and with only around 1,000 cells in its entire body, this structure is amazingly complex; an assemblage of muscles, ligaments, and toothed plates (trophi) all working together to macerate […]

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My Very First Assessment Centre! – TheBioenterpriseBlog says:

October 30, 2017 at 1:32 am

[…] (Website) – Ross Piper Information […]
Koorosh says:

November 10, 2017 at 1:21 pm

Did you ever find out the species name for the Torymid? It’s a real beauty!

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Meeting Dr Ross Piper – Ryan Eddowes- Blogumentary says:

January 22, 2018 at 11:52 am

[…] to Ross being an Author, in which he wrote a book entitled “Animal Earth” which encompass a whole array of beautiful photography’s of the animals we tend to forget about […]
George Pilkington says:

March 16, 2018 at 7:22 am

Wonderful. How on earth and why did these wasps evolve to live in this risky manner? Love stuff like this and thanks for sharing. George

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Interview Assessment: Is everything as it seems? – Herpeton Travels says:

April 11, 2018 at 12:14 am

[…] scenario the students were told that they were competing for a chance to meet Bangor alumni, Ross Piper, who works on documentaries with the […]
Rami says:

April 24, 2018 at 7:33 pm

It sounds great but the link points to the embded image, not to a pdf article.

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1. admin says:
  
  April 24, 2018 at 8:29 pm
  
  It’s now fixed.
  
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Assessment Centre – Aaron Jeffery BioTech says:

April 25, 2018 at 9:41 pm

[…] was actually a prize on offer for some of the best candidates, which was to meet Dr Ross Piper. Although it would’ve been cool to win, I don’t think that many people were really that […]
The Assessment Centre – Ray Reynolds says:

April 26, 2018 at 4:16 pm

[…] Almost a bad decision! We then learnt that those who had won were getting the chance to meet Dr. Ross Piper; a zoologist interested primarily in entomology, author of the book ‘Animal Earth: The Amazing […]
PAUL DELUCCO says:

May 6, 2018 at 1:57 pm

Hi Dr. Piper, I enjoyed the article and photos. I wondered: at what point does the chalcid parasitoid wasp deposit its egg – presumably a single egg – in the brood chamber? I would guess she does it when the chamber is still open, i.e. when the hunting wasp is out hunting spiders.

Thank you.

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1. admin says:
  
  June 20, 2018 at 9:29 am
  
  Hi, Paul. Can be a single egg, but it depends on the size of the host and if it’s sufficiently large to feed several parasitoids. Some parasitoids enter the host nest, while others use their ovipositor to penetrate the wall of the nest. Thanks. Ross
  
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7 ways to help insects (and why) - Natures Home magazine uncovered - Our work - The RSPB Community says:

June 7, 2018 at 3:20 pm

[…] Ross Piper reveals some of the smallest species on RSPB reserves in full colour, double-page glory. It truly […]
Donat agosti says:

June 23, 2018 at 10:22 am

Wonderful and stunning work. If you are looking for a repository to archive and make citable the large images you might want to contact me agosti@plazi.org, http://biolitrepo.org

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1. admin says:
  
  June 25, 2018 at 9:51 am
  
  Thanks, Donat. I will after we’ve published it.
  
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Colin Taylor says:

April 4, 2019 at 11:30 pm

Hi Dr Piper. Great site. Are the Chalcid wasps dedicated to the nest builders offspring or are they open to other species?

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1. admin says:
  
  April 11, 2019 at 8:18 am
  
  Hi, Colin. These parasitoids vary. Some are specific to a particular host, while others might go for a particular group of host species that make their nests in a similar way
  
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10 Incredibly Intricate Microscopic Organisms That Will Blow Your Mind – Hot News in America says:

April 8, 2019 at 2:14 am

[…] “For an animal so small and with only around 1,000 cells in its entire body, this structure is amazingly complex; an assemblage of muscles, ligaments, and toothed plates (trophi) all working together to macerate […]

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Paul Jones says:

December 8, 2019 at 7:45 pm

Great article about a fascinating creature. Is there an animal that has fewer offspring that digger and sands wasps?

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Trevor Lawson says:

January 13, 2020 at 9:17 pm

This site is a fantastic piece of work. Hats off to you Ross. Superb!

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1. admin says:
  
  January 15, 2020 at 9:42 am
  
  Thanks, Trevor. I’ll add more stuff when I have time.
  
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Alfred F. Newton says:

January 15, 2020 at 3:27 am

Very nice work and great images!
How do you recommend that this work be cited, and accessed?

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1. admin says:
  
  January 15, 2020 at 9:43 am
  
  Thanks, Alfred. The photos aren’t mine. Just cite my name, Saproxylic Beetles of the UK and the URL.
  
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Benedict Pollard says:

February 23, 2020 at 12:16 am

Fabulous!

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Saproxylic beetles - Dr. Ross Piper says:

October 1, 2020 at 9:41 am

[…] I’ve been using interception traps to study these insects in more detail. The design for these traps was kindly supplied by Adrian […]

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Johannes Reibnitz says:

March 5, 2022 at 5:36 pm

Hallo Dr. Piper,

auf der Suche nach Ciidae Literatur fand ich ihre Fotosammlung.

Hinweis: Cis punctulatus ist Cis lucasi und Cis submicans ist ebenfalls ein Cis micans (die Art ist falsch bestimmt).

Best regards
Johannes

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1. admin says:
  
  November 2, 2022 at 12:02 pm
  
  Many thanks.
  
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sebastian walaita javan says:

October 28, 2022 at 3:41 pm

Great work indeed. How can cite this material/page?

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1. admin says:
  
  November 2, 2022 at 12:03 pm
  
  Thanks. The photos aren’t mine. Just cite my name, Saproxylic Beetles of the UK and the URL
  
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