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Right now, Enbridge’s planned drill pad sight is a bare patch of muddy earth that is 100% inhabited by a neat nix of ants, solitary wasps and bees, hunting spiders that don’t use webs of several type, and breeding tiger beetles. As there are state-listed #TigerBeetles, @mndnr...
...might want to put a stay on HDD at that drill pad site until a #Coleoptera expert gets a chance to ID them. There seems to be at least one species, similar to but also different from what I’ve seem at Fosston Trail, also Clearwater County:
I don’t have photo or video of the different species I observed, because I wasting/in-prayer without electronics and watching them just before dusk.
Just back from a trip to the #NewForest. Epic greenery and amazing trees... 
Here are some fern meadow scenes (do not enter; ticks and deer flies)...
Arthropods of the #NewForest 1: wood ants...
Some more beetle studies. If you are a character designer and particularly if you like to make creatures, armor or machines, you should definitely get to know and love bugs!
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