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.
It might be useful for someone to donate a few copies of this new book to bugwatchers at the #StopLine3 camps: csc.edu/news/story.csc… and/or send people to collect beetles before they’re destroyed cc: @UNLEntomology @chadronstate
No formal survey to identify rare and protected insect species was conducted by @mndnr before Enbridge Line 3 construction permits were approved.
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