{"id":94520,"date":"2023-08-25T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/25\/man-with-too-much-time-creates-color-gradient-collection-of-dung-beetles\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:40:23","slug":"man-with-too-much-time-creates-color-gradient-collection-of-dung-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/25\/man-with-too-much-time-creates-color-gradient-collection-of-dung-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"Man With Too Much Time Creates Color Gradient Collection of Dung Beetles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>Bored during the last stages of the Covid-19 lockdown, a Japanese man spent a whole month catching dung beetles and creating a mesmerizing color gradient collection.<\/p>\n<p>On August 17, Japanese Twitter (X) user <em>bochimushi<\/em> posted a photo of hundreds of shiny dung beetles arranged by color \u2013 from deep blue to purple \u2013 forming an impressive gradient. Apparently, the eye-catching collection of beetles was created in August of last year, as a way to pass the time during the end of the Covid-19 lockdown. Bored out of his mind, the man started hunting dung beetles and then arranging them neatly in this gradient style for a stunning visual effect. Bochimushi\u2019s collection consists of a whopping 450 dung beetles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bochimushi64\/status\/1692113449596354681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">@bochimushi64\/X<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <em>bochimushi<\/em> isn\u2019t the only Japanese person to have created a gradient collection of beetles. Mjinko, another Twitter user commenting on the viral photo of the shiny beetles, share their own collection, which looks surprisingly similar. Believe it or not, they also put it together during the pandemic, only a year earlier, in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79369 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/beetle-collection2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mijinko116\/status\/1692325870072111408\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@mikinko116\/X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bochimushi\u2019s photo was viewed over 1.4 million times on Twitter and got around 22,000 likes. In the Western world, you\u2019d expect to get some kind of negative comments from animal lovers, but scrolling deep into the comment section on this photo, we were unable to find a single negative comment.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ja\" xml:lang=\"ja\">\u53bb\u5e74\u306e\u79c1\u306f\uff18\u6708\u306e\u307b\u3068\u3093\u3069\u3092\u81ea\u7c9b\u3060\u3068\u304b\u8a00\u308f\u308c\u3066\u3053\u3093\u306a\u3082\u306e\u3092\u4f5c\u3063\u3066\u305f\u3093\u3067\u3059\ud83d\ude05<br \/>\u9000\u5c48\u3057\u3066\u305f\u3093\u3060\u306a\u3068\u3001\u6211\u306a\u304c\u3089\u601d\u3044\u307e\u3059 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rpOCEGMG9J\">pic.twitter.com\/rpOCEGMG9J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bochimushi (@bochimushi64) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bochimushi64\/status\/1692113449596354681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"7172c97f161a040b5fdf6f36-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.4&appId=665932603465761\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bored during the last stages of the Covid-19 lockdown, a Japanese man spent a whole month catching dung beetles and creating a mesmerizing color gradient collection. 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