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I don’t think I’ve seen a more egregious example of insect-ID-fail than this one!
It may, in fact, be a moth 🙂
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Beetles In The Bush 
I did like the utter confidence with which he pointed out the bushy tail, teeth and hooves, and then, without any sound of crunching gears, moved onto the details of the antennae.
Rorschach taxonomy, that’s what it is.
Yes, and to top it off, after being told it was a butterfly and not a horse, he suggests (erroneously) that it might actually be a moth.
I could whilst away the hours
cavorting with the flowers!
If I only had a brain!
Every year people go hunting and shoot cows,horses, people and other critters all the while remarking “Look at this deer I shot!”
How did our specie get so far anyway?
I’ve made my share of ID errors, but I don’t think I’ve ever missed the phylum!
Good find, Ted. Enhanced our knowledge of nature, i.e., the nature of man!
Sometimes as fascinating as nature itself.
That is the most hilarious–and disturbing–commercial I’ve ever seen. FAIL! You got that right. But it certainly made for a shocked-expression-turned-delightful-laugh on an otherwise boring Sunday afternoon…
A little levity now and then is a good thing.