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**pawel** @pawel717@pixelfed.social · 12h

12h

pawel @pawel717@pixelfed.social

Cantharis sp.
#cantharis #cantharidae #coleoptera #beetle #insects #entomology #wildlife #nature #naturephotography

#naturephotography

**Plazi Species** @plazi_species@mastodon.green · 2d

Plazi Species @plazi_species@mastodon.green

#NewSpecies!
New rhinoceros beetle from #colombia just snuck in:

Heterogomphus kogui

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/846ACD50-FF98-E84F-FF02-39E0FCD5E7DA
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5590.3.3
#Zootaxa #HeterogomphusKogui

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #scarabbeetles #scarabs #rhinoceros

**Gaël Covain** @gcovain@pixelfed.fr · 4d

Gaël Covain @gcovain@pixelfed.fr

Cicindèle Maritime (Cicindela maritima)

Dunes du Fort Vert (Marck), août 2022

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Cicindela maritima

Dunes du Fort Vert (Marck), august 2022

#cicindelamaritima #cicindèlemaritime #cicindela #cicindelidae #cicindèles #coleoptera #coléoptères #dunesdufortvert #eden62 #hautsdefrance #insectedefrance #insectesdefrance #insecte #insectes #nature

#nature

**Nico V** @icetroll@mastodon.xyz · May 4

May 4

Nico V @icetroll@mastodon.xyz

Oomorphus concolor (Sturm, 1807)

Snapped last week. Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2r2H8rg

Close up shot of a small but shiny leaf beetle.

#Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Lamprosomatinae

**Nico V** @icetroll@mastodon.xyz · May 2

May 2

Nico V @icetroll@mastodon.xyz

Agriotes sputator (Linnaeus, 1758)

Snapped last week and published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2r2iP7X

Close up shot of a very small black and brown beetle.

#Coleoptera #Elateridae #Elaterinae

**Bath Nature** @BathNature@ecoevo.social · May 1

May 1

Bath Nature @BathNature@ecoevo.social

Life on mint - Mint Moth (Pyrausta aurata) and Green Tortoise Beetle (Cassida viridis), today in #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#Nature #Wildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Insect #Insects #Coleoptera #Beetles #Moth #Lepidoptera #NatureCommunity

A small moth with purple forewings with yellow spots, black hindwings with a yellow stripe. The moth is resting on a leaf.

A flattened green beetle, head hidden by the thorax, on a green leaf

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**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · May 1

May 1

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

one of my favourite dinosaurs when I was a dinosaur-obsessed kid was Anklyosaurus. Idk exactly why. anyway check out this Cretaceous-ass motherfucker

_Gagatophorus leichardtii_ from Western Australia, #iNaturalist observation by marniem: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170221765

A knobbly black beetle with an elongated abdomen covered with lines of intimidating-looking red-brown spikes. Its trademark long nose is tucked underneath its body.

#WeevilWednesday #bugstodon #insects

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**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · May 1

May 1

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

i know i've posted these guys before but the fucking face gets me every time it's just like _.____

New Zealand giraffe weevil (_Lasiorhynchus barbicornis_), #iNaturalist observation by emily_r: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143687387

it's like a fucking stick had eyes on it idk. facing sideways, it just looks like a long thin dark brown tube with the most perfect little round eye near the bottom. you can tell there are 0 thoughts in that little noggin

#WeevilWednesday #bugstodon #insects

**Bryan Wright** @catselbow@fosstodon.org · Apr 28

Apr 28

Bryan Wright @catselbow@fosstodon.org

I would never have seen this fellow if he hadn't moved. He's tiny and the color of the sand in this creekside sandbar.

We look down on a fuzzy little sand-colored scarab-shaped beetle on a background of sand. His large, coffee-colored antennae jut out and forward from his head, spreading into three paddles at their ends. The antennae remind us of reindeer antlers, and the whole fuzzy creature could be the insect analog of a shaggy reindeer.

#beetles #coleoptera #insects

**Axel Steiner** @Natur@nrw.social · Apr 28

Apr 28

Axel Steiner @Natur@nrw.social

Extrem lässig posiert dieser Schwarzfleckige Zangenbock (Rhagium mordax) auf einem Weißdornstrauch. Ich hoffe, dass ihr auch mit dieser Gelassenheit in die neue Woche geht

#artenvielfalt #beetles #beetle

**Axel Steiner** @Natur@nrw.social · Apr 27

Apr 27

Axel Steiner @Natur@nrw.social

Die Vierzehnpunkt-Marienkäfer (Calvia quatuordecimguttata) sind fleißig an der Produktion der nächsten Generation. Viel Glück dabei!

#artenvielfalt #beetles #beetle

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**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · Apr 24

Apr 24

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

The burrowing bees are so cute. They'll sit right at the entrance of their holes and, when you pass by, immediately retreat. However if you wait patiently they'll come back up again.

I thought I also saw immense bees buzzing around, but they turned out to be furry scarab beetles of some kind!

#InverteFest #bugstodon #insects #bees #beetles #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Colletidae? #Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae

A tiny golden-furred bee peeks out of its burrow in a charred, ash-strewn dirt slope. A hill of bright, freshly dug sandy earth surrounds the burrow.

Close-up of the bee poking its head out of the burrow. It has rather long antennae.

A scarab beetle with tan elytra with pale pinstripes; fan-like antennae; and pale golden fur. It's sitting on the ground amid charred twigs.

The underside of the beetle as it clings to a stick I'm holding between my fingers. It is very furry. The tips of its wings, not entirely folded up, stick out from beneath its elytra.

**Nico V** @icetroll@mastodon.xyz · Apr 24

Apr 24

Nico V @icetroll@mastodon.xyz

Melolontha melolontha (Linnaeus, 1758)

Snapped on Tuesday evening and published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2qZEBv5

#Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae #Melolonthinae

**Willa** @wplalonde@lgbtqia.space · Apr 24

Apr 24

Willa @wplalonde@lgbtqia.space

Seven-spotted ladybug (𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢), from the Wiley Trails:

A small roundish beetle with black-spotted red elytra over a black body with white spots, perched on a mottled brown dried leaf amidst sticks on the forest floor.

#InsectThursday #ladybug #beetles

**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · Apr 23

Apr 23

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

I finally have a contribution of my own for #WeevilWednesday this year! This tiny ink-blue weevil was having a hard time scaling the dead leaf.

A tiny pear-shaped beetle with a long thin snout, standing on a dead leaf. Its body is a very dark metallic blue and its elytra are longitudinally grooved.

"I've fallen and I can't get up!" The weevil has lost its footing and is on its back, legs flailing.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles

**Bryan Wright** @catselbow@fosstodon.org · Apr 22

Apr 22

Bryan Wright @catselbow@fosstodon.org

A handsome six-spotted tiger beetle. These guys are blindingly fast runners, and can take to the air. I was lucky that this one stood still long enough for a picture.

We look down on a bright metallic green beetle who is standing on the surface of a barkless log. The beetle's elytra-covered abdomen is shaped like an elongated shield or a fat sword blade. The elytra each have three small white spots on their edges, as though the paint has been scraped off to reveal a white substrate. The beetle's head is a two-balled knob, with the balls being a pair of enormous round, black eyes. Shiny metallic green antennae protrude in front of them. Below the eyes a swiss-army-knife array of mouthparts is splayed out, ready to catch prey. The beetle's long, thin legs are spread wide, ready to pounce!

#beetles #coleoptera #insects

**Plazi Species** @plazi_species@mastodon.green · Apr 18

Apr 18

Plazi Species @plazi_species@mastodon.green

#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

**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · Apr 18

Apr 18

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

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

A black-and-white weevil clutching a plant stem. It has a pair of horn-like lumps at the end of its abdomen and another much smaller pair at the front end of its thorax. Its snout…how can I describe its snout? It is bulbous, saddle-shaped. It looks like the heel of a god damn Fluevog shoe. How is this creature real.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles

**Alex Wild** @alexwild@mastodon.online · Apr 16

Apr 16

Alex Wild @alexwild@mastodon.online

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

Macro photo in side view of an odd, wedge-shaped black beetle with a small head and a large tail spine, standing atop a large yellow pollen-covered flower head, with blurred green leaves in the background.

**Gaël Covain** @gcovain@pixelfed.fr · Apr 15

Apr 15

Gaël Covain @gcovain@pixelfed.fr

Cicindèle Hybride (Cicindela hybrida)

Celui-là je l'ai suivi sur au moins 20 mètres, il fuyait à chaque fois que je m'approchais.
Finalement j'ai abandonné et me suis arrêté pour regarder si j'avais quand même eu au moins une photo correcte de loin (non).
Quand j'ai relevé les yeux il avait fait demi-tour, s'était rapproché de moi et n'a pas pris la fuite quand j'ai approché mon appareil au plus près...
Du coup j'ai des photos de face

Dunes du Fort Vert (Marck), juillet 2022

#cicindelahybrida #cicindèlehybride #cicindela #cicindelidae #cicindèles #coleoptera #coléoptères #dunesdufortvert #eden62 #hautsdefrance #insectedefrance #insectesdefrance #insecte #insectes #nature

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