Beetles
Rural Paraguay 1995
James Patton
That morning my beekeeping student, an aspiring local politician, had
brought me out to his bee-yard to help with its reconstruction after opposition
supporters had thrown over a dozen or so of his two-story hives. The africanized
bees were in a terrific fury; I brought my camera but was only able to
get this one curious picture of beetles, resembling giant ladybugs, before
arriving at the apiary. I was never able to determine if they were feeding
or mating as we were forced to flee the area in all haste when the bees
became overly aggressive.
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Fletcher School, Tufts University