Anyone recognize this insect?

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As I was feeding the chickens, this remarkable creature crawled past my line of vision.


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I, accidentally, knocked over the chicken feed in a rush to take a picture of the colorful insect?


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Initially, at a distance, I thought it might be a scorpion —we’ve been visited by a few of those.


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But on closer inspection, realized it was too small and colorful to be that!


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Has anyone out there seen anything like it?
My instinct, in the past, has been to pick up such marvelous looking creatures to better study them.
But, after handling a poisonous African snail, in a beautiful giant shell, I’ve been more wary…

Here’s another mysterious and rather elegant creature that we encountered, earlier:


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Doesn’t it look like it’s all dressed up to attend some significant cultural event 😊


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It’s a wild world in the countryside of Colombia.


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I wonder if you could use Image Search to identify that creature.

Google has one and this is the Help page for it:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808

I use Bing for my searches since I'm in their reward program. https://rewards.bing.com/

Bing image search is:
https://www.bing.com/visualsearch

I'm not a big fan of bug pics but the last photo in this post is quite scenic! Thanks for sharing :)

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Thanks, for those leads. Even creepy crawlers have their share of beauty… Micro/macrocosm—enchanted world!

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We appreciate your work and your post has been manually curated by zoology team (oscurity,nelinoeva) on behalf of Amazing Nature Community. Keep up the good work!

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