Beetle wings open

In this science activity, kids will explore and create a beetle habitat where they can observe beetles! Beetles are different from other insects because they have a pair of tough fore-wings called “elytra” and a second set of more delicate flight wings. The fore-wings protect the beetle’s body and the flight wings. Beetles can crawl around rocks, sticks, and leaves and not get hurt because their elytra are tough. When they are ready to fly, they open their elytra and unfold their flight…

Cool Atlas Beetle with wings extended. Copyright Dreaming Beetle LLC

Male Atlas beetle (Chalcosoma atlas). The wings are shown in the open position.

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Brazil-based tattoo artist Menace turned the crook of a client’s arm into a fluttering beetle. In one arm position, the cleverly-placed black ink design appears as a beetle at rest with its exoskeleton sealed off. When extended, the client’s inked arm reveals a beetle with its delicate wings outstretched and its striped abdomen exposed. The dynamic design was created at the recent Expo Tattoo Floripa on the Brazilian island of Santa Catarina. More

I recently revisited this character, opening the elytra and adding wings. The elytra and wings are derived from macro photogrammetry of a real Hercules beetle.