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Yes, yes, you're quite right about my mistake. No telling what other wonderful lateral and ventral shots I could have gotten had I not insulted him. All from my odd ideas about natural habitat.

Yesterday I saw a beautiful rove beetle, and its habitat was a pile of very wet deer droppings. Should I photograph it in situ?

Well that is what I did, but I know no book or magazine will ever run that picture with its particular background. (What magazine would run the picture even with a different background? Rove Beetle Monthly?)

I am adding just one more view of the eyes, this one is at full size so no more detail is possible...