Astonishing insects and other beautiful small beings

Nightmare fuel for sure :grimacing:

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i just saw the WIKI photo from the asian market with scolopendras on sticks…
seriously, who would eat that…

They come in some gnarly colours don’t they

This is a close relative of the bugger that got me

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Insects pictures I took with A51 smartphone…

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A wild pet spider appears (grammostola rosea)

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Whaaat how would they taste * :woozy_face: they look fascinating but intimidating, do they move fast? :grimacing:

  • I would never try

They’re pretty quick. And pretty much indestructible. I wouldn’t normally hurt a fly, but did have several smacks at the one that got me in my tent. Got it with my shoe a few times and it just kept doing laps

Keep that tent door closed these days, ocean breeze be damned

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me neither… i like most insects but there are a few i really find disgusting and alienating… and on top the poison of many Scolopendra ranges from extremely painful to deadly. But ok, that may not count on an asian market…

:fearful:where was that?

Amazing :cold_face:

Hawaii

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I was on a small macro photography trip yesterday in our nearby forest.


I even met a beekeeper on his beehive. We talked a little and he kindly gave me a beekeeper hat so I could take some pictures.

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Sweet!

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Meeting in Tikal, Guatemala :

Not very good pictures made with a 2000’s compact camera :content:

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Playing with some macro photography yesterday looking for bees, but found a moth hiding among them too.

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Kamikiri mushi buzzed my head this morning. Anoplophora glabripennis? Surely it’s pronounced like pennies.


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So fascinating! I googled it, they are quite large, wow!

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