It’s not Wednesday but have a weevil anyway #beetles #WeevilNotWednesday

You have … a little bit of something … just a spot … #beetles

#NewSpecies!
New jewel beetle from #cambodia just glittered:

Anthaxia haraldi

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B087A9-FFB0-3902-DDB4-A009FF7FFDD3
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.3.9
#Zootaxa #AnthaxiaHaraldi

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ok i know #WeevilWednesday was yesterday but LOOK. AT. THIS. CREATURE.

_Aegorhinus servillei_ spotted in Chile by mgargiulo on #iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135627329

With the temp hitting 68°f/20°c, we grabbed a couple chairs from the shed and set them out on the deck. I waited to see who would be this spring’s First Friend.*

The winner - this Ground Beetle!

*Winners must sit on Dan long enough for a photo and not sting, bite, or excrete. See contest rules for complete entry requirements.

A tumbling flower beetle, Mordella sp., feeds from an aster at UT Austin's Stengl Lost Pines Field Station. #Beetles #Mordellidae #Coleoptera #Pollinators #Insects

My handmade bug magnets collection will be released tomorrow (Saturday) at 6pm UTC+1! I will have 5 of each available in total. They will be available alone or as sets!

More informations: https://evanskyarts.com/en/collections/magnets

#NewSpecies!
New endemic beetle from #southafrica just came in:

Stenomastigus mpumalanganus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF87EE-FFDF-E45E-FF5C-FB10FACCC709
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5590.1.5
#Zootaxa #StenomastigusMpumalanganus

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Beetles beetles beetles beetles (Acmaeodera tubulus)
...they really liked this daisy fleabane flower!

Just ridiculous. (Pygopleurus vulpes, a bumblebee scarab beetle, in north Greece.) #beetles #insects #MacroPhotography

#NewSpecies
New longhorn beetle from #ecuador just came in:

Nealcidion chloroxanthon

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/892487AC-7602-FFE5-4FD1-D88EF1CAFE07
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5604.1.1
#Zootaxa #NealcidionChloroxanthon

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Another fabulous bumblebee scarab beetle, again inside a poppy flower in our back garden. I think this might be another Pygopleurus species, P veridisuturatus, but I’m going entirely on the colours in iNaturalist photos without knowing what I could be mixing it up with, so that may be ENTIRELY wrong. #beetles #insects #MacroPhotography

Dung #beetles are unsung heroes of ecosystems. If both drought and fire kill off dung beetles, then the Amazon #rainforest is in serious trouble. Help them to survive by going #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil ️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-4IZ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

I finally got a decent-focus shot of the bumblebee scarab in our garden, I think Pygopleurus vulpes. #insects #beetles #MacroPhotography

So richtig fängt das Insekten-Frühjahr für mich erst an, wenn die Feld-Sandlaufkäfer (Cicindela campestris) wieder auf der Jagd sind.

#NewSpecies!
New darklingbeetle from #indonesia just snuck in:

Strongylium bidens

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D6274B0C-AB77-FF92-FDB9-A1BF2C7FFBD5
Publication: https://doi.org/10.59893/bjc.24(1).002
#BalticJournalOfColeopterology #StrongyliumBidens

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As I have said before, seven spot ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata) seem to be holding up quite well, even where harlequins are abundant.

Another sunny Spring day.

El escarabajo diana dorada (Ischnocodia annulus) es una especie del neotrópico que puede encontrarse en plantas del género Cordia y el canelo (Ocotea veraguensis).Laurent Hesemans #escarabajos #beetles #coleoptera #insectos #insects

Littoral Tiger Beetle (Calomera littoralis)