r/whatisit • u/Cultural_Fall_3255 • 4h ago

New, what is it? What is this thing.

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u/dogfish192 4h ago

long-horn beetle, they have a blue variant which is beautiful

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u/JazzlikeOwl6340 4h ago

It's pretty sexy, but I've seen hotter bugs.

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u/Ringo1131 3h ago

Your sensual roach wife, Ogtha?

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u/TrueCrimeInTheBuff 3h ago

like the dung beetle

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u/zipthai 2h ago

And it's variant, the diarrhea beetle

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u/KoolaidKoll123 3h ago

All I can picture is Thumbelina during that dancing scene with the bug voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.

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u/CopperAard 1h ago

Ever play Yakuza Kiwami? They have Battle Bug Beauties (I think is what it’s called). I think they say it’s fairies dressed as bugs, but I mean…damn, lol.

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u/Rigel311 4h ago

You are our last hope, dogfish, thanks for the actual answer. Btw 120 minute is my favorite dogfish.

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u/laernmoer 3h ago

Fun memory trip, we had one of those as a pet, we named him ramen. Then we found a yellow one and called him udon. 

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u/notJonSerra 3h ago

I catch these mfers all the time in Animal Crossing

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u/Numerous_Text2514 1h ago

Rosalia Batesi!

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u/Popular-Fact-9922 3h ago

Dude........ Lion King

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u/MISSISSIPPIPPISSISSI 2h ago

Not a different variant, different species. In a different genus (there are many genus of longhorns).

Common names can present a false sense of relatedness.

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u/bottomofthekeyboard 2h ago

...legend has it that the song 'I'm Blue dab-a-dee-dab-a-day' was inspired by this creature

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u/Saikotsu 2h ago

Ooh, we have brown variants of the blue looking one around here. They're something something wood borers

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u/HisblanicQueen 1h ago

A shiny!!!

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u/Trichophobias 1h ago

is it weird that all my knowledge of bugs are from an owl name Blathers who works in a museum?