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Even Beetles Love Tea

Even Beetles Love Tea

I was leaving the place I was staying in Yucca Valley and dropped my teabag out of the cup. Feeling bad for littering and less than 1 minute after dropping it I...
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I was leaving the place I was staying in Yucca Valley and dropped my teabag out of the cup. Feeling bad for littering and less than 1 minute after dropping it I turned back to find this little guy enjoying the tannins and other tea goodness.
I guess if you're in the desert you learn to sniff out water (or the little guy just got lucky).
At any rate. He got a little drink of tea and I got a good pic.
Taken in raw mode with the manual focus on my old LG G5 phone.
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