This rather magnificent beast was walking along a path in Tasmania when I found it. Its some form of wood boring beetle as far as I can tell, but much else beyond that is beyond me! If you look closely at the pictures you can see that the beetle has a mite infection. I only noticed this when I looked at the iamges on the computer.
You can find the post in which these pictures origainlly appeared here. You can find more marco photgraphs at Macro Monday.
5 comments:
isn't that amazing that something WE consider small is invaded by tiny mites too! he's got some serious pinchers.
Look at those pinchers!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
Okay, excellent shots...but ewwwwwwwwwww. I'm not a bug fan!
Beautiful macro work!!
Gary beat me to it because the pinchers was the first thing I noticed. :) Sure wouldn't want it mad at me.
Interesting texture of the background.
Hope you're having a nice day.
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