Malachite Beetle

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Malachite Beetle

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Malachite Beetle by Can Tunçer, on Flickr

Malachite Beettle's eye-catching abdominal region that combines two colors. I do not know what the red objects on the side are.

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very nice, perfectly diffused light and colors
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Thanks :)
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Very cool composition!
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My guess is that the outgrowths are fruiting bodies of a fungus. Can't think of what else they might be.
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