Dung bettle, face, Beltsville Airport
Small Scarab. Perhaps a dung beetle? Too tired tonight to get any deeper than that on identifications. Picked up while sweeping for insects at one of the 200 acre MAGLEV trainyard sites being proposed for my USFWS Patuxent and USDA BARC research sites. Photograph by Elizabeth Panner.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr