#pasimachus

[megthemaggot]

AOAUUAouugh biting meeeeee :3c

[platycryptus]

warrior beetles literally only want one thing and it’s to eat my finger

[megthemaggot]

haven't seen Blade in like a month. thought he was deceased. he took this worm from me but now he's just blair witching it in the corner idk if he remembers how to eat it.... my guy.....

[megthemaggot]

he eats the jelly. i put the mealworm in the bowl.

he bites the bowl. he bites the bowl 6 times.

he eats the jelly.

[megthemaggot]

where is Blade II?

oh??

there he is! :]

[megthemaggot]

yaaayyy jellyyy 💖❤🐞

[megthemaggot]

HE'S ALIVE

[findsthethings]

I saw this little fellow in the parking lot at the Botanic Gardens. It was decently sized, about 2 inches long. It was pretty adorable, stopping every so often, then scurrying off when I would try to get a better picture of it.

It looks like it might be a ground beetle, specifically a member of Pasimachus. These beetles are flightless, and if you look at the abdomen you can see that it is fused where the wings would separate. A couple species also have blue or purple ridges. 

(It took like 4 hours to narrow it down to a family. Beetles are not easy.)

Photos taken at the Botanic Gardens in Stillwater, OK.