Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

With Chrysina limbata around, you won’t need a mirror! This species has an especially shiny exoskeleton, reflecting up to 97% of the light that hits it. In the wild, the mirror-like reflective surface may fool potential predators into thinking the beetle is just a drop of water- effectively serving as conspicuous camouflage.

(Image: Close-ups of Chrysina limbata by Michael Farmer)

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Chrysina limbata. ⚪

Metallic silver beetle found in the tropical rainforests of Central America, including Costa Rica and Mexico

📸: Michael Farmer

Chrysina Limbata Artificer Made this for a character design club prompt. I was pressed for time so I went to the dark side (gradient shaders + glow filter)

TIL about chrysina limbata, a species of scarab beetle found in parts of Mexico, Costa Rica, and South America that has a reflective metallic silvery shell:

Chrysina limbata

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Chrysina limbata; Metallic silver beetle found in the tropical rainforests of Central America, including Costa Rica, and Mexico

📸 Michael Farmer

odd animal bust adopts: open 4 preclaim!!!

hi hi hi here are some designs based on funky animals! this is also just the first half of a batch of 6!! Actually I may or may not do the other 2 so this is EDITED to have the 4th one I did sketch!!!!!!

they are available for preclaim, so if you want one, you get to tell me how you'd like it to be colored/any minor design changes you would like done!

chrysina limbata mirror beetle: open ($15)

small five-toed jerboa: open ($15)

marbled polecat: open ($15)

normal rules apply!

don't crop out my signature when you receive the finished artwork

credit me when you first post the design and link back to my tumblr for things like an info page (or my toyhouse if you upload there, it is sunnelion)

don't resell for more than you bought the design for unless there's additional artwork

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Hey! I'm Jack, and if you follow my blog at all you know I post about 'uncharismatic' fauna, aka the ones that are pests, are gross or even harmful or just generally less-known than more cute animals like pandas or elephants.

As of right now, this post on Chrysina limbata is by far my post popular, despite containing little more than a fun fact and a cool picture. And despite so many people telling me in the tags that this beetle is charismatic, and cool, and pretty (which I agree it totally is!), it also illustrates my point. Despite being incredibly visually interesting, almost nothing is known about this species; its life cycle, its diet, its ecological niche-- nothing. The photo I used was one of only a handful that have ever been taken of C. Iimbata. And that is precisely what I'm trying to highlight with this blog. There are so many cool animals on this planet, and we know so little about them! We could probably spend the next hundred years cataloging and recording, and still not cover even a tenth of the amazing species that we live with.

So if you thought C. limbata, or any of the animals that I write about, was charismatic, consider doing your own research! Read about your local species! If you're in a position to do so, do research and help contribute to our knowledge of these charismatic critters (that's what I'm doing!). And, of course, if you have an animal you'd like to learn more about, feel free to send me an ask or request!

                         Chrysina Limbata - Costa Rican Beetle.  

   Chrysina limbata is a species of scarab beetle found in Costa Rica and in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and South America. They are in the Genus Chrysina and they are in a subfamily of scarabs known as Rutelinae. It is notable for its metallic reflective silver colour.

Qual è l’animale più raro da trovare sul pianeta Terra?

QUESTO:

Sembra uno di quegli strani microchip robotici che vengono usati in film fantascientifici come Transformers, o giù di lì. E invece quello che stai vedendo è un essere completamente naturale.

Si chiama Chrysina Limbata, anche detto ‘scarabeo gioiello’, ed è l’insetto più difficile da trovare in natura. Sono stati rinvenuti pochissimi esemplari tra Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador e Costa Rica.

La colorazione del suo manto non è assolutamente artificiale: la cromatura metallica riflettente viene assunta dalla specie a seguito della rifrazione luminosa a diverse lunghezze d’onda che si verifica direttamente sull’esoscheletro della creatura.

Per via dell’estrema bellezza dell’esemplare e della grande difficoltà riscontrata nell’individuarlo in natura, questa particolare specie di scarabeo viene addirittura venduta ad un costo che oscilla tra i 500 ed i 1000 dollari.

🔥No, it's not chrome, it's a natural wonder of an insect native to Costa Rica.😲 Chrysina limbata is a species of scarab beetle found in Costa Rica and in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and South America

Chrysina limbata

Chrysina limbata

Original photo by Michael Farmer

Creature Awaits #209

Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry. Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )

This month, we're featuring beautiful animals in silvery shades!

(A beautiful capture by photo/video analyst, Chris Spitzer (at least, it looks like that is the original photographer though several others also posted it - please let me know if this is incorrect. I try to give proper credit. : ) )

The Silver Scarab Beetle

Scientific Name: Chrysina limbata

Region: Tropical Rainforests throughout Mexico and Central America

Size: About 0.98"-1.38" (~25mm-35mm) long

Interesting Notes: The metallic appearance of this beautiful beetle is due to a natural phenomenon called, "thin-film interference" where reflected light is either strengthened or weakened as it passes into a film's surfaces (in this case, the beetle's chitin's many layers of varying thickness.)

Hayır, krom değil, Kosta Rika'ya ait bir böceğin doğal harikası. 😲 Chrysina limbata, Kosta Rika'da ve Meksika ve Güney Amerika'nın tropikal yağmur ormanlarında bulunan bir böcek türüdür https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf0z2tQI2g5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My OCs as bugs Part 2?

Flint Fevre - Photinus pyralis - Big Dipper Firefly

Sadie Kris - Chrysiridia rhipheus - Sunset Moth

Alestrada Barnes - Camponotus americanus - Carpenter Ant (Infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis)

Emrys - Chrysina Limbata - Silver Jewel Scarab

Beau - Orthemis ferruginea - Roseate Skimmer

Bran Silverwing - Hemileuca maia - Buck Moth

Lilith Darling- Paraplectana tsushimensis - Ladybird Mimic Spider (A wing casing across her back like a ladybug’s but instead of unfolding to reveal lovely wings, terrifying spider legs would uncurl from beneath it.)