A snail-eating beetle, Scaphinotus, from Arizona. #insects #Scaphinotus #beetles
@alexwild I like the purple sheen.
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Why are beetles irridescent? Doesn't it make them more visible to predators like birds?
@alexwild no shots of them eating snails?
@alexwild There's a European bettle similarly adapted with a narrow head AND thorax. I don't believe I have ever seen it myself.
https://www.naturbasen.dk/billeder/5450/snegleroever
(Photo: Brian Willum Petersen)