Photoreal · Capture
May Beetle
B♭4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 459.7 Hz.
The May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring.
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 459.7 Hz, 24 cents flat of B♭4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.
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How to play
Tap it to lift its wing cases and fan its antennae.
About it
The May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring. Its hard wing cases cover a pair of thin flying wings folded underneath, and its antennae end in little fans that it spreads to smell the air.
Tap it and the wing cases lift and part with a shiver, and the fans spread, then everything folds away again. A cockchafer lives most of its life underground as a white grub, eating roots for three or four years before it digs out as a beetle.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| MAY-BEETLE-HIRESConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | trilithon | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
