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Found this shiny blue beetle at work today. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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The Internet says it's an oil beetle. I've never seen one of those before.

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[–] sircac@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it a queen ant with crapy image compression/enhancements? If I remember correctly beetles have the torax fusioned with the abdomen...

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Let me educate myself, beetles have them differentiated... though I think abdomen had hardened wings or alike to be a beetle... I am open for reeducation about these details

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Look up Meloe violaceus

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Nice catch!