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A steelblue ladybird (www.inaturalist.org)

Halmus chalybeus, commonly known as the steelblue ladybird, is a species of ladybird in the beetle family Coccinellidae and the genus Halmus that is native to Australia.

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[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is this the Blue Beetle?

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

cool site btw, I’ve been looking for something that aggregates animal photos, maybe I can finally become an Earthposter

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

aggregates animal photos

It seems a some (many?) sites have at least some AI. I got burned yesterday. I didn't know it but I ended up sharing AI bullshit text.

[-] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

yeah, Dort_Owl's reports about running into AI generated animal images always kinda discouraged me from just searching and posting stuff, I might not know enough about the animal to tell if it's a fake or not, ...but I'm sure animal photographers out there must have some site where they share their stuff and ban AI stuff

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Real sites should have at least three things - the photographers' names, an "about" page, and a page with the people who are in charge of the site. In my haste to post yesterday - I forgot to check that stuff.

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