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A tiger beetle on steroids

[featured image] Tiger beetles come in all shapes and sizes, but on the whole they’re rather elegant, fine-limbed animals. With this said, some of their number are real brutes and perhaps the most brutish of all are the African Manticora species (for a sense of scale here’s one behaving nicely …

A face only a mother could love (1)…

[featured image] There are a lot of people who are repulsed by insects, and for good reason, as a few of them, especially the immature stages look like nameless things that have scampered out of a nightmare. Still, it’s often the case that what these rotters lack in appearance than …