ater on Nostr: Today for #MarshMadness I painted a saltmarsh tiger beetle, Eunota severa. Or is it ...

Today for #MarshMadness I painted a saltmarsh tiger beetle, Eunota severa. Or is it Habroscelimorpha severa? Cicindela severa? Someone should probably do a taxonomic review.

I'm not terribly fond of taxonomy, but I am obsessed with tiger beetles (Cicindelidae), some of the fastest predators out there. At speeds up to 125 body lengths per second, even those enormous eyes can't take in enough light to see their surroundings. Imagine being so fast you go blind!

I don't have to - my eyesight is slow af. I didn't realize there was such a temporal component to vision until I started losing it.

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