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Reboot: Desert stink beetle, probably Eleodes carbonaria, at San Pedro House, Cochise County, Arizona.
This time in a ready-aim-fire posture.

Desert stinker.
Probably Eleodes carbonaria, at San Pedro House, Cochise County, Arizona.
These guys are always in a hurry. Whenever I see one on the trail I mentally hear that Woodkid Run Boy Run song from a few years ago. Hell, it’s been used as a soundtrack for everything else, it might as well be the soundtrack for a scurrying darkling beetle.

Desert stink beetle (Eleodes longicollis) fending off the pesky hiker. On the Presidio trail, Cochise County, Arizona.

Flagstaff Natural: Desert stink beetle (Eleodes sp.).
A desert stink beetle is one of many things Clint Eastwood spits on in The Outlaw Josey Wales – the spittingest movie ever filmed.
Flagstaff Natural: Desert stink beetle (Eleodes sp.).
A desert stink beetle is one of many things Clint Eastwood spits on in The Outlaw Josey Wales – the spittingest movie ever filmed.