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Bryan Wright

7 months ago

Bryan Wright
7 months ago

I would never have seen this fellow if he hadn't moved. He's tiny and the color of the sand in this creekside sandbar.

#beetles #coleoptera #insects #InverteFest #Photography

We look down on a fuzzy little sand-colored scarab-shaped beetle on a background of sand. His large, coffee-colored antennae jut out and forward from his head, spreading into three paddles at their ends. The antennae remind us of reindeer antlers, and the whole fuzzy creature could be the insect analog of a shaggy reindeer.

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neville park

11 months ago

neville park
11 months ago

oh shit it's #WeevilWednesday

BEHOLD: this majestic _Poteriophorus imperatrix_ observed in the Philippines by Claude Chavand: inaturalist.org/observations/3… " title=""/>

#iNaturalist #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Dryophthorinae

A large, majestic white and caramel-coloured weevil with an immense thick curved snout with bushy hairs along the bottom. It is standing on a fingertip and its body, not counting snout, is about as long as the first segment.

Poteriophorus imperatrix observed by Claude Chavand

Poteriophorus imperatrix from San Jose, Padilla, Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines on April 13, 2019 at 10:05 AM by Claude Chavand. This big weevil (around 30mm long without rostrum) was found walking on stones on a river bank cl...

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#iNaturalist #bugstodon #insects #beetles #WeevilWednesday #Weevils #coleoptera #Curculionidae #dryophthorinae