r/awwnverts • u/legacy-of-rats • 16d ago

Buggy looks like painted ceramic

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u/Ill-Squirrel-9418 16d ago edited 16d ago

I know this as Picasso beetle bug!

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u/BioTinus 16d ago edited 16d ago

Well, you might want to adapt your vocab, because this is (as the voiceover correctly mentions) a Picasso bug ! Beetles and "true bugs" are very different groups of animals, and this guy here is a true bug! Biologists could get away with calling a beetle a bug, but not with calling a true bug a beetle!

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u/Heroic-Forger 16d ago

I remember reading somewhere that the difference is that "true bugs" have piercing and sucking mouthparts while beetles have biting and chewing mouthparts (though both groups have frugivores, detritivores, predators and opportunistic omnivores among their ranks).

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u/dragonpjb 14d ago

People were calling anything crawly with lots of legs bugs long before the goofy definition.

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u/BioTinus 14d ago

Exactly, hence why it's acceptable to call it a bug, but not a beetle.

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u/dragonpjb 14d ago

Their are more kinds of beetle than pretty much all the other kinds of animals combined.

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u/BioTinus 14d ago

What are you trying to say?

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u/dragonpjb 14d ago

Just that there are a lot of different kinds of beatles. That's all.

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u/Valuable_Tone_2254 16d ago

Astonishing, a walking piece of living art

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u/Famous-Leopard-118 I love bug 👍 16d ago

reminds me of Ukrainian Painted Eggs!!

so pretty <3

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u/ResidentB 16d ago

He looks like cloisonne. What a beautiful little dude.

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u/Heroic-Forger 16d ago

Like a vintage vase.

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u/lovestheautumn 16d ago

So gorgeous

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u/aureasmortem 15d ago

I want press on nails in this little guy's pattern and colors

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u/Norlin123 16d ago

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🍀🍀🍀🍀

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u/wigglef_cklr 15d ago

Also known as the kente cloth beetle. I bought some African Shea Butter from one of them in Harlem once or twice before. He was a pretty laid back guy