If you want to see them all, I made a beetle highway out of the still shots before I made the .gif. I think the originals came from NatGeog, but I posted the link where I found them. http://tackyraccoons.com/2011/07/17/meet-the-beetles/
No doubt which is my favorite—Calodema ribbei (flashing yellow, blue and red buprestid beetle)! Of course, it took several sessions watching them flash by at 100 mph before I could decide that!
Beetles In The Bush 
AWESOME!
If you want to see them all, I made a beetle highway out of the still shots before I made the .gif. I think the originals came from NatGeog, but I posted the link where I found them.
http://tackyraccoons.com/2011/07/17/meet-the-beetles/
Amazing photos – I wonder who made and posted them. Gotta be focus-stacked or automontage!
coyotepact.com is where I found the images, but there is no photo credit given. There’s a link to a contact if you want to track them down.
This should be an ID challenge – how many can you get down to family on one viewing of the full 80!
Good idea – but then I’d have to sit down and figure them all out to award the points!
Might as well make it down to species!! 🙂
Amazing photos, can’t decide which one is my favorite. It’s addictive watching them, you can’t stop staring at them as the flash by at 100mph.
No doubt which is my favorite—Calodema ribbei (flashing yellow, blue and red buprestid beetle)! Of course, it took several sessions watching them flash by at 100 mph before I could decide that!
Try watching this animation while listening to “Woo-Hoo” (1959, by the Rock-a-Teens)!
Oh, that’s a perfect music score to go along with it!
“Surfin’ Bird” by the Trashmen works for me.
Possibly those are all from Urjsa’s beetle flickr stream?
Could be – Udo’s specimen photos are as fine as they come.