May Beetle

The May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring.

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Shelf: Photoreal
Kind: Capture
Sound: Yes
Licenses: CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD

How to play

Tap it to lift its wing cases and fan its antennae.

About it

The May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring. Its hard wing cases cover a pair of thin flying wings folded underneath, and its antennae end in little fans that it spreads to smell the air.

Tap it and the wing cases lift and part with a shiver, and the fans spread, then everything folds away again. A cockchafer lives most of its life underground as a white grub, eating roots for three or four years before it digs out as a beetle.

Sources and credits

Work	By	License
MAY-BEETLE-HIRESConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled.	trilithon	CC BY 4.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD: WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

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