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Old 11-05-2010, 12:12 AM   #1
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Nov 5, 2010: Silver Beetle

Candy is dandy and liquor is quicker
You can drink all the liquor down at Costa Rica

But if you do, you might start hallucinating.

Roland Seitre may have thought he was hallucinating when he first spotted these metallic looking silver beetles, in the mountains of Costa Rica.



They look more like beetle shaped jewelery, than real bugs, with their shiny silver shells and purple feet.
But they are real, as are their metallic green, metallic yellow, and porcelain white cousins.

I don't think we should eat them though, any critter that flashy, usually tastes bad.

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Old 11-05-2010, 03:18 AM   #2
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They're constantly bothered by other bugs trying to comb their hair.

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Old 11-05-2010, 05:35 AM   #3
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Old 11-05-2010, 06:49 AM   #4
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squish it anyway.
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Old 11-05-2010, 08:28 AM   #5
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They don't taste bad, they have bad taste.
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Old 11-05-2010, 09:57 AM   #6
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Want.

I have a fine chain that would set one off *perfectly*, and idea I have shamelessly stolen from The Libertine.
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Old 11-05-2010, 12:26 PM   #7
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Pretty, pretty!
They'd look lovely on chocolate cupcakes.
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Old 11-05-2010, 01:06 PM   #8
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Old 11-08-2010, 01:03 AM   #9
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I have it on authority that "those are kind of common". My opinion: the dude snap'n the pictures is more 'playfully ignorant media whore' than 'cataloging entomologist'. Still cool pics though.
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Old 11-08-2010, 01:26 AM   #10
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WTF? He was a French photographer on vacation in Costa Rica, and said he'd already seen them in a Costa Rican museum, just delighted to see them in the wild. Where are they common, you mean in Costa Rica?
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Old 11-08-2010, 10:18 AM   #11
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VW should do a bug in stainless steel. They could even call it the Wolfsburg Back to the Future Limited Edition.
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Old 11-08-2010, 10:25 AM   #12
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Porsche did a 911 in stainless a while ago. Just to give it a go. Neat idea, but expensive.
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Old 11-16-2010, 08:56 PM   #13
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We have Christmas beetles here in Australia that look similar to that.
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Old 11-18-2010, 09:29 AM   #14
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Old 11-18-2010, 11:35 AM   #15
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What's the 378383, something you added? My copies don't have that.
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