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.

http://cellar.org/2010/silverbeatle.jpg

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. :yelsick:

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They're constantly bothered by other bugs trying to comb their hair.

Ba-ling

garnish

squish it anyway.

They don't taste bad, they have bad taste.

Want.

I have a fine chain that would set one off *perfectly*, and idea I have shamelessly stolen from The Libertine.

Pretty, pretty!
They'd look lovely on chocolate cupcakes.

A ready-made brooch.

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.

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?

My mind works in mysterious ways:

VW should do a bug in stainless steel. They could even call it the Wolfsburg Back to the Future Limited Edition.

Porsche did a 911 in stainless a while ago. Just to give it a go. Neat idea, but expensive.

We have Christmas beetles here in Australia that look similar to that.

White Beatles:

http://www.loriblakeley.name/loribla...3_19681122.jpg

What's the 378383, something you added? My copies don't have that.