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

Flipped a piece of bark and found these small snail-eating beetles enjoying spring.

Sphaeroderus stenostomus

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

El Pachyderes apicalis es un escarabajo de Singapur caracterizado por los "cuernos" en el borde posterior del pronoto, un rasgo propio de su género y de sus antepasados del Cretácico medio. klearad #escarabajos #beetles #coleoptera #insectos #insects

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

Turns out fireflies are beetles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly

That'll teach me to think I know anything at all about anythng at all.

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

My favourite thing about the pink beetle magnet is the unexpected belly colour
I decided to show it off in a little video, which is also a good opportunity for me to show how invisible the magnets are on them!

Bug magnets coming soon!

Ps: sorry for the abysmal quality, I’ll take a better one soon

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)

Another question on #beetles (behaviour+ecology) looking for an expert. We get bumblebee scarabs here in north Greece, the delightfully fuzzy Pygopleurus vulpes. During the day they come to our lawn flowers: I’m wondering what they’re likely to be doing during the night. Night flying seems unlikely, especially given the temperature, but do they return to fixed nest sites? Burrow? Just crash wherever they find themselves? Solitary or gathered in groups? #insectodon #insects

Any experts on #beetles (behaviour+ecology) here to answer a couple of questions? We get oil beetles (Meloe) here in north Greece but last year I saw none at all over the period I would expect them to mate and lay eggs. I’m wondering if one bad breeding year is likely to wipe them out locally, or if there will be adults overwintering from previous years who can pick things up. #insectodon #insects

There were more Pygopleurus vulpes about today, and I again failed to get any in-focus shots. Its maddening. Have some other chafer-type beastie instead. #beetles #MacroPhotography

My favourite time of year is when I get to blow your minds: this is a scarab beetle. Pygopleurus vulpes I believe. (North Greece.) #insects #beetles

Alphasida depressa

Brachycerus muricatus