BioBlitz Series - Beetle (Coleoptera) Blitz

 This tiger beetle, resting on a flower, is one of many species found during the Beetle Blitz.
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From July 15 to 18, 2005, 55 people spent 2,242 hours collecting, sorting, pinning, and identifying beetles found on the Schoodic Peninsula portion of Acadia National Park. The final total is 310 species in 45 families—13% of the 2,286 species known from Maine. Forty-eight of these species (15% of the total species taken during the blitz) had never previously been reported from Maine. Researchers estimate that the blitz identified approximately 60 species never before recorded in Acadia National Park.

Participants gather in the Schooner Club for an introduction to the Bettle Blitz. A volunteers identifies his starting point on the Schoodic Peninsula map. Lynn Havsall of the Dorr Museum of Natural History demonstrates collection techniques.
A researcher in the field looks for specimens. Many volunteers, including this woman, spent hours over microscopes identifying beetle species. A sampling of species found during the blitz is displayed in this collection.

Visit the following pages for more information about other BioBlitzes conducted at Acadia National Park: Ant Blitz, Butterfly Blitz, and Fly Blitz.

Last Updated: 24-Aug-2006
Contact: Editor
http://www.nps.gov /archive/acad/serc/research/beetleblitz.htm