Aug 23, 2025
Shiny Ground Beetle (Agonum sexpunctatum), EAT TASTY AMPHIPOD!!!, family Carabidae, Denmark
photograph by Jan Fischer Rasmussen
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Shiny Ground Beetle (Agonum sexpunctatum), EAT TASTY AMPHIPOD!!!, family Carabidae, Denmark
photograph by Jan Fischer Rasmussen
I felt like doing a Miraculous Au like what everyone else is doing. I did get inspired by the Scarlet Lady Au, so that’s what got me to make a miraculous au in 2023.
Note: I had to add a Hair Bow and Blossom Pin on Marinette.
Ground beetles are normally quite skittish in the daytime, but this one (genus Agonum maybe??) was so intent on carrying off its ginormous haul, it stayed right out in the open and didn't care that I was photographing it. Even more surprising, the giant leopard moth caterpillar (Hypercompe scribonia) it had set its sights on was still alive! I'm not sure how things ended up, when I walked away the caterpillar was still being tugged along by the beetle but kept obstinately trying to go off in the opposite direction.