Travel Bug Dog Tag Jewel Beetle TB

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Owner:
Daihlo Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Origin:
Georgia, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of Easter3.

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Current Goal

Move from Cache to Cache as often as possible. Please dont keep me out too long - I love to travel on my beautiful wings of green. I came from Thailand so I love international travel and would love to get back to Asia if possible.

About This Item

jewelbeetle

I am a Travel Bug attached to a key chain with a Jewel Beetle from Thailand embedded in Lucite.

Im not really a green color - I just only reflect green light waves back to your eyes. Thats why my colors shift as you look at me from different angles.

"Jewel beetles" are widely known for their glossy external skeletons that appear to change colors as the angle of view changes. Now they may be known for something else--providing a blueprint for materials that reflect light rather than absorbing it to produce colors.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta recently discovered jewel beetles change color because of the light-reflecting properties of the cells that make up their external skeletons, not because of unique, light-absorbing properties in their pigment. They say the finding could be important for industries such as car manufacturers that look to reflective light paints for automobiles.

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Tracking History (4858.2mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 10/22/2010 CodeJunkie retrieved it from Eureka! : Trail of the serpent Wisconsin   Visit Log

Now this is a unique TB and what a great writeup about the reflection vs. absorbtion of colors. I've never heard of this in bugs before.
Dropped Off 10/9/2010 djwini placed it in Eureka! : Trail of the serpent Wisconsin - 890.63 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/5/2010 djwini retrieved it from TrackThis Wisconsin   Visit Log

picked this bug up on a beautiful fall day, while i was biking and caching. will try to place it next weekend
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Dropped Off 9/22/2010 itsknotsew placed it in TrackThis Wisconsin - 857.89 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/14/2010 itsknotsew retrieved it from Sunday Cache Dash #1 Texas   Visit Log

Well, I'm not going anywhere international for awhile so will take this to WI next week. Kinda pretty, kinda gross! LOL
Dropped Off 9/7/2010 kedge placed it in Sunday Cache Dash #1 Texas - 1.65 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/4/2010 kedge retrieved it from Check It Out!! Texas   Visit Log

Found this little guy in Check it out in North Richland Hills. Will move it along shortly!
Dropped Off 8/27/2010 jaam2k placed it in Check It Out!! Texas - 749.09 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 8/20/2010 jaam2k grabbed it   Visit Log

Found this bug a long way from home. Started in Georgia on July 30, was pick out of it's fisrt cache on the 31st, and something in the last wo and half weeks made it all the way to Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (Southlake to be exact, it was in Feed the Cows (GC1T7GR). It was a good find. The first TB that The Mooner & LittleMan have found, 4th for me. Always exciting.
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/31/2010 Axmantis retrieved it from Mc Cache Georgia   Visit Log

Very cool TB!! I plan on keeping it moving along....
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