Call it the world's smallest -- and smelliest -- Elvis impersonator.
A stink bug caught on camera by an amateur wildlife photographer in Singapore has grown the perfect camouflage: It looks like the King.
Winston Jansen says he encountered the bug while on an expedition through the island's forests -- and rather than get all shook up over the encounter, he got out his camera.
I was simply in awe at the beauty of the camouflage. I know many insects use it to avoid being preyed upon, but I'd never seen anything like it before, he said, according to the Daily Telegraph.
I was just captivated by the bright colors, he added. Then on closer inspection it just hit me there is actually a face on its back.
Not just any face -- but the face that once made women as wild as a bug: the face of Elvis Presley.
But not everyone thinks this bug is honoring Elvis -- Britain's Daily Mail says it looks more like Bert from Sesame Street.
And you can kind of see the resemblance there, too.
It also looks a bit like an Easter Island moai, the singer Morrissey and actor/wrestler Dalip Singh, aka wrestling's The Great Khali.
Article link with picture: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/06/worlds-tiniest-elvis-impersonator-you-aint-nothin-but-a-stin/
A stink bug caught on camera by an amateur wildlife photographer in Singapore has grown the perfect camouflage: It looks like the King.
Winston Jansen says he encountered the bug while on an expedition through the island's forests -- and rather than get all shook up over the encounter, he got out his camera.
I was simply in awe at the beauty of the camouflage. I know many insects use it to avoid being preyed upon, but I'd never seen anything like it before, he said, according to the Daily Telegraph.
I was just captivated by the bright colors, he added. Then on closer inspection it just hit me there is actually a face on its back.
Not just any face -- but the face that once made women as wild as a bug: the face of Elvis Presley.
But not everyone thinks this bug is honoring Elvis -- Britain's Daily Mail says it looks more like Bert from Sesame Street.
And you can kind of see the resemblance there, too.
It also looks a bit like an Easter Island moai, the singer Morrissey and actor/wrestler Dalip Singh, aka wrestling's The Great Khali.
Article link with picture: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/06/worlds-tiniest-elvis-impersonator-you-aint-nothin-but-a-stin/
