Monsters in the grass by Chaosphoto

Photography • Insects • posted on Apr 25, 2010

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Snapped a few pictures of this little guy in my garden yesterday. He was quite obliging for a while but finally must have got tired of me moving him around and he flew off just as I was really getting into the swing of it all !!. A few have asked details of this beetle but to be honest I don't know them. In the last week I have seen 5 but never seen them before that. This was one of the smaller ones at just over 2cm or just under 1 inch for you imperials.

Comments (19)

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KatesFriend

8:44AM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Handsome little guy. I wonder what he is.

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Meisiekind

8:58AM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Looks like he's playing for the Oz One Day cricket side with the jersey he is wearing!! :) Wonderful capture of this cutie Martin!! I'm just wondering how big he is?

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mrestey

9:15AM | Sun, 25 April 2010

COOL closeup Martin. That's quite a colorful beetle. Which one is that? George, Ringo, Paul? Can't be John. Sadly we lost him long ago. Excellent image.

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Rainastorm

9:18AM | Sun, 25 April 2010

lol he looks like he needs a name...cute lil creature!

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willpee

9:22AM | Sun, 25 April 2010

An excellent capture !!!!

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Faemike55

11:45AM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Fantastic capture! love the colours

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P3Design

11:52AM | Sun, 25 April 2010

What a marvelous capture, so clear, you can easily see his little pupils, love it :)

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zil2008

12:56PM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Looks like he was enjoying the spotlight. Nice capture with that macro setting. I always ever get blurry pictures. I'm not a photog by any means.

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adrie

4:37PM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Great macro shot my friend, excellent capture.

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alessimarco

5:10PM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Beetles rule the world....largest number of species of any insect...about 350,000! Really great capture of this fellow, whichever of the 350,000 he belongs to!

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3dpoetry

6:08PM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Awesome shot

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watapki66

9:02PM | Sun, 25 April 2010

Wonderful macro!

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ledwolorz

12:57AM | Mon, 26 April 2010

Beautiful macro.

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SoulEatar

2:05AM | Mon, 26 April 2010

Nicely done - unique and very interesting !

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flora-crassella

6:07AM | Mon, 26 April 2010

what a cool bug!!!! GREAT photo!

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NightGallery

10:45PM | Wed, 28 April 2010

Saw this one.. Not sure. Some kind of Scarab. Looks like a Japanese beetle but not quite. Something close to it I think. Great colors though for sure.