User: VGPaleontologist
File: Bavon Beach series- The Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle.webm
Author: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Year: 2011
PD: PD-USGov-USFWS
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Cat: Documentaries
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{{ft/s|{{Transcript|1=|2=Partnering to Conserve Virginia's Coast</br></br>[[File:Seal of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.svg|center|100px]]
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''Bavon Beach series: The Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle''}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|1=Mike Drummond|2=And the northeastern beach tiger beetle is listed, uh, mainly because of, uh, low numbers lost through the Atlantic seaboard area.}}
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{{ft/s|[[File:Seal of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.svg|center|50px]]
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{{x-larger|'''MIKE DRUMMOND'''}}
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|1=Mike Drummond|2=Um, its range is from Massachusetts to Virginia.}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|1=Mike Drummond|2=Uh, currently it's only found in two populations in Massachusetts, uh, and majority of its, uh, existing populations are here in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay.}}
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{{ft/s|{{Border|bgcolor=white|align=center|{{x-larger|Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle}}</br>{{larger|''(Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis)''}}</br>{{x-larger|Maryland & Virginia Distribution}} {{Border|align=center|width=0 auto 0 auto|{{color|#b336e8|████}} Occupied Shoreline}}}}
{{c|Calvert County
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Saint Mary's County
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Somerset County
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MARYLAND
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VIRGINIA
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Northumberland County
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Accomack County
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Lancaster County
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Middlesex County
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Matthews County
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Northampton County
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{{larger|{{color|#5f9bdf|'''CHESAPEAKE BAY'''}}}}}}
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{{border|bgcolor=#ddddae|align=center|Bavon Beach}}
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{{c|Poquoson City}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|So this site, it is very significant to us, um, and it also lies adjacent to the uh, the uh, Newpoint Comfort, uh, Preserve Area, which is state property, and that's another important beetle population to us.}}}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|The northeastern beach tiger beetle's only as an adult out basically from about mid-June to, uh, into August.}}}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|Um, it lives primarily—its- most of its life as a larval stage in the inner tidal zone.}}}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|Uh, {{SIC|its|it}} exists there from two to three years, uh, hence the reason why it's prone to, uh, severe loss due to any type of storm events or things like that.}}}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|The adult's kind of a sandish color, uh, it has some markings on its back, uh, it's pretty well set-up to blend in with the sand environment it's on.}}}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|The adults are probably no more than about an inch in length.}}}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|One of the things we're looking at here is {{SIC|it}}, we can't stem the increasing levels here in the Chesapeake Bay, which is basically increasing higher than even the Atlantic Ocean is.}}}}
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{{ft/d|{{Transcript|Mike Drummond|So, we've gotta slow down the erosion rates, give the beetle a chance to, uh, adjust and move to new habitats that will be created over time as others basically disappear.}}}}
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{{ft/s|{{c|Learn more about this beetle at
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www.fws.gov/northeast/endangered/tiger_beetle.}}}}
