Carbon
Anthracite is a form of coal. It is hard black and shiny.
Anthracite is a form of coal. It is hard black and shiny.
A tiny, green and black, insect with a hard shell is most likely a beetle. There are an estimated 28,000 species of beetles in North America.
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One possible match could be the ebony jewelwing beetle. It is a small, black beetle with a hard shell that measures about one inch in length.
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Carbon in the form of graphite is hard, black, and shiny. Carbon atoms in graphite are arranged in layers that give it its distinctive properties.
The shell is hard.
The flying black insect with a hard shell is called a beetle. Beetles have a hard exoskeleton and a pair of forewings called elytra. They have a second pair of wings called the alae or hind wings and this pair is what they use to fly.
I had one hatch into a hummingbird moth.
Grasshoppers do not have a hard shell.