Reader photo: Scarab beetle in San Gabriel

In south San Gabriel, Howard Fang found a scarab beetle in a parking lot near his workplace on Aug. 1. It was upside down and struggling, he said, so he turned it right side up, and it went along its merry way. Fang adds that his office building has a mirror-like facade, so birds and insects fly into it from time to time. Fang used an iPhone 4S.

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