Pinching Beetle by dakotabluemoon

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Jul 06, 2013

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Description

If u ever run across one of these guy's be careful if the pinch on to u the only way to get them off of u is to kill them.

Comments (30)

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lisalisette

6:24AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

I hope I won't run across that species lol.. great capture my friend :)

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Richardphotos

7:00AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

superb macro

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0rest4wicked

7:14AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

That looks like a mouthful!

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jayfar

7:19AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Lovely shot and to be forewarned is to be forearmed!

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Hendesse

7:46AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Fantastic find and capture. Excellent details!

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Faemike55

7:59AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Fantastic capture love the colours

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Cyve

8:30AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Marvelous close-up^!

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flavia49

9:34AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

wonderful macro

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-seek-

10:20AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

nice stag beetle

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bebopdlx

10:25AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Yikes.

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pat40

10:35AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Lovely pic.

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X-PaX

11:03AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Very nice finding and great capture.

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Jean_C

11:19AM | Sat, 06 July 2013

A very beautiful beetle (i like beetles :) ), superb capture!

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Celart

1:06PM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Fantastic capture. Very well done

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pimanjc

1:22PM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Big one. Nice image.

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durleybeachbum

1:25PM | Sat, 06 July 2013

I have handled these a lot, they will only hurt if you scare them! A superb pic of this Stag beetle male.

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sandra46

4:39PM | Sat, 06 July 2013

SUPERLATIVE WORK

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Isabelle711

8:01PM | Sat, 06 July 2013

This big guy looks like he would really put a hurting on you if he needed to. :( Most excellent capture my friend. :))))) Thank you for sharing. :)))))) Carry A Sunshine Smile In Your Heart :)))))))

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jocko500

8:07PM | Sat, 06 July 2013

he a big one. do not let him bit you. lol. cool micro

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netot

11:11PM | Sat, 06 July 2013

Great flowers guard! He is awesome. I love beatles, but I never have seen one of those wandering near here. Excellent capture, Brandy!

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ia-du-lin

2:05AM | Sun, 07 July 2013

beautiful beetle, very nice capture.

whaleman

2:19AM | Sun, 07 July 2013

One look at that and I'm going the other way!

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photosynthesis

2:25AM | Sun, 07 July 2013

Very impressive armor & pinchers - great capture...

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moochagoo

2:41PM | Sun, 07 July 2013

This is really amazing. Bravo.

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danapommet

10:20PM | Sun, 07 July 2013

Beautiful photo and I have not seen this reddish version. Those mandibles do look powerful and nasty! :>)

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magichild2

9:47AM | Mon, 08 July 2013

Yikes...great macro shot

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Blush

3:48PM | Mon, 08 July 2013

I saw one of these the other night and killed it pretty quick I had no idea what the name of it was until now..glad it didn't pinch me great capture hugs susan

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