Mirror beetles’ shiny bodies may not act as camouflage after all

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Mirror beetles’ shiny bodies may not act as camouflage after all
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Can something as bright and shiny as a natural mirror work as camouflage?

Creating a “brushed-metal” look was easy, but she needed fake beetles with a full muscle car metal shine. Also she needed something fast to make. “If you have to sand it all day, you’re not going to be able to make a thousand,” Franklin says.

The trick to beetle-grade reflectivity turned out to be finding just the right super-smooth resin to coat the models before spray-painting. Then just a bit of sanding the shiny models approximated the relative difference between the mirror species and its drabber relative.

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