Your gateway to endless inspiration
🪲 : Things I Keep In My Pocket - Blog Posts
Long-armed scarab, Cheirotonus gestroi, Scarabaeidae
Found in Southeast Asia, this species is considered endangered
Photo 1 by malacoderm, 2-3 by maxnuraliev, 4-5 by tang-xiaopang, and 6 (female on top and male below) by fernwild
Acanthothorax longicornis perhaps!
i think the males are the ones sporting the long antennae; though whether it's a secondary sex characteristic or evolved for mayybe detection of some kind? not sure on that. i don't think it's to make up for poor eyesight since female A. longicornis lack the long, thread-like antennae, unless the males have significantly shittier sight. not much of my surface-level searching brings up much info!
weevil 821
via
Psammodesmus Bryophorus. A millipede native to Colombia, it has epizoic mosses growing on its back. Epizoic plants, related to epiphytic plants, grow on the backs of animals rather than trees or other plants! Everyone deserves to know about the mossy millipede.