Gargantuan Beetle!

Screamin Scott · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: Gargantuan Beetle!

I found this guy today & took it home so as to take some shots of it. I have a set with 9 photos on my Flickr account but here are a couple from the set..Lester A Dine on a Nikon D70s

On one one of my flowers

Crawling up my forearm....Slightly out of focus as he was crawling too fast even though I tried to set up a focal point prior to the shot

patrickh · Expire: 2011-11-18

Scott
How do you find these critters? Great shots with that lovely Dine lens

patrickh

poilu · Expire: 2019-08-29

great pics!
and you let them run on your arm Shocked

here we have them in black
long ago I had such a family in my room and I let them in peace
One fall on me when I was sleeping, I found one in my shoes and one in my chocolate milk then peace break
I kill them all and now I don't like them anymore Twisted Evil

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

First image is excellent macro!

Ours are all black too.
There was a lot of them in a house at the sea that my family used to rent in July for the summer vacation when I was a kid. The house was at ground floor and was a old house, with lots of green around, super humidity (I bet lenses would have developed fungus in record time), and a lot of cracks at the doors and windows these critters could get it and out through.
I remember that with the lack of mercy that is typical of the age, I used to play with them in this way: when I spotted one, I took out the box with the six plastic heavy balls that I used to play in the sand with
(I don't know the English name, this is the game):

and from the other side of the room, I threw the balls rolling on the floor trying to hit them Rolling Eyes

themoleman342 · Expire: 2013-01-24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocce