7:19 pm, July 18, 2013
The small, light-colored beetles flitting across the sand on a stretch of south shore beach on Martha’s Vineyard had long crawled under the radar. But when Tim Simmons saw several such beetles on an August day in 1989, he started to celebrate.
Mr. Simmons, then the executive director of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, hurried back to his office and called Paul Goldstein.