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the glowing eyespots on the back of this click beetle look like staring alien eyes, see photo #2
rainforest, 1400m
I spotted this on a nighthike in Yotoco natural reserve. At first spotting I thought it was eyes of something but then thought it strange that they kept glowing after I took my light off them. They can control the lights and after spending a bit of time taking its photo, it dimmed the intensity so much, that they were hardly noticeable.
Spotted on Jan 22, 2013
Submitted on Apr 7, 2013
15 Comments
Good find!
So cool!
Like first pic
How cool!
I thought it was a cat! :)
Awesome!
Thanks for all the comments! harsuame I'm shooting this manually, no function for effect. I had the camera on a tripod focused on the insect, which was staying still, then I did a one second exposure to capture the glowing eyes.
bella!! which use camera function for Eye Effect
That one is cool! Quite an interesting one.
I came here because of the evil eyes ;-)
Headlight Beetle, cool!
Wow fantastic !
GREAT!!!!
awesome.
cool, maybe they use them to attract pray... Because if they don´t want to camouflage at night it must be for a different purpose...sort of what fish do deep in the ocean...
Greetings =)