Category is: Coleoptera realness 🐞

The queens from #DragRaceUK S2 as beetles in our collections. A thread 👇🏽
Come through, Anoplognathus aureus 💛
Werk it, Carabus intricatus 💜
Sashay, Acanthophorus serraticornis 🤎
Serving MENACE, it's an Australian jewel beetle ❤️🖤
Fierce, Oryctes nasicornis 🖤
We love a cinched waist moment, Elaphrus lapponicus 💚
Take it to the runway, frog legged leaf beetle 💙
Ooh slay, Stephanorrhina guttata 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Who IS she? It's Creophilus erythrocephalus 🧡🖤
Strike a pose, Goliathus regius 🖤🤍
We are living for this frog legged leaf beetle ❤️
Let's see those jazz wings, Anoplognathus viridiaeneus 💛
Huge thanks to the wonderful @AshWhiffin, our Assistant Curator of Entomology, for her help with this thread.

Ashleigh says it best: "beetles and Drag Race pair pretty well! They are the most glamorous insects and are incredibly diverse in their forms."

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