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Old 01-04-2003, 08:56 PM
James
 
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Default beetles that look like ladybug but not; Sandpipers?


"Archimedes Plutonium" wrote in message
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I had always thought sandpipers are only near coasts. And this is South
Dakota.
I was never good at identification of birds. I do enjoy these birds. I
call them
sandpipers because they seem to sound like them from what I recall of
sandpipers near San Diego. They are about the size of pigeons but
smaller.
They are a mix of white and black and excellent flyers. I enjoy their
piping
in early spring. But I cannot understand how any bird can evolve with
such
behaviour as these. I mean, I only have to walk on the outskirts of
where these
birds are during summertime and they spend a whole lot of energy in just

getting me to avoid their territory. Presuming they are nesting on the
ground.


Killdeer maybe. It hollers "kideee kideee".

Is there a beetle that looks like ladybug beetles but is not? I am
having an
exploding population of these beetles which I thought were ladybug but
I do not think they are. Reasons: I do not think there are that many
aphid
population for the number of ladybug. I am guessing there is a beetle
that looks like a ladybug and explodes in population every now and then.


There is a lookalike ladybug which is not a true one but I don't know very
much about it.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies