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Found this shiny blue beetle at work today. (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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The Internet says it's an oil beetle. I've never seen one of those before.

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[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It looks tike some ant but with big butt

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Oh my God, Becky. Look at her butt!

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

This looks like a painting

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Looking at that thing I would have assumed it's a wasp. Weird beetle.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

This is the greatest news I've heard all day!

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

This is almost too interesting

Cool find, thanks for sharing!

[–] diptchip@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Is it that ass-blaster one?

[–] viscacha@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

One of the few beetles that can actually kill a human.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it a queen ant with crapy image compression/enhancements? If I remember correctly beetles have the torax fusioned with the abdomen...

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Let me educate myself, beetles have them differentiated... though I think abdomen had hardened wings or alike to be a beetle... I am open for reeducation about these details

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Look up Meloe violaceus

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Nice catch!

[–] Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

is the image edited ? looks like it , can you post original ?

[–] NoPanko@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

That looks like auto sharpening that a lot of modern phone cameras do which messes up zoomed images like this. Happens with my phone camera too it’s really annoying

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3ttQxHeyBrcGQCpz9

Phone isn't letting me add the raw image directly, but that link goes to it.

[–] Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

thanks