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A large beetle creeps inside a wild flower in Mushager village near Amman, Jordan
Photograph: Jamal Nasrallah/EPA
(Source: Guardian)
A male rhinoceros beetle sports its enormous pitchfork-like horn. Horny beetles and stag deer share a common mechanism that helps them attract mates with ostentatious ornaments, scientists believe
Photograph: Will Freihofer/PA
(Source: Guardian)
Big Six Birds: Southern ground hornbill about to catch a large beetle in its beak – Masai Mara, Kenya
Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery
The leaf beetle (Stilodes sedecimmaculata) is found only in the Guyana Shield, a geological formation in South America. The beetles store toxic chemicals from the plants they eat in their bodies, and advertise this toxicity with bright colours to warn off predators. This week, it was announced that 46 new species had been found in neighbouring Suriname
Photograph: Trond Larsen/Conservation International
The Amazon rain forest is home to many large beetles, but none of them compares in length to the titan beetle, Titanus giganteus. This gargantuan insect has mandibles that can easily snap a pencil in half, and reportedly they can rip into human flesh, too.
10 of the largest insects in the world
(via earthhour)
~Calvia quatuordecimguttata~ by Wildlife On The Go The Bugman on Flickr.
IMG_9647a by Philip Wee on Flickr.
Dor Beetle by nutmeg66 on Flickr.
Eyed Ladybird - Anatis ocellata by Ashley _Wood on Flickr.
Ladybird (made Explore - thank you) by Poyntonshoot Mike on Flickr.
