Great Diving Beetle

Great Diving Beetle - Dytiscus marginalis

Elaphrus cupreus

Alas, Elaphrus cupreus is just a little too small to have its marvellous blue ocelli admired by humans on a regular basis. Look for it moving fast round the edges of ponds and streams.

Elaphrus cupreus

Elaphrus cupreus

Deceased Longhorn Dismantling

Pied longhorn beetle being dismantled and used to make more ants.

ゴマダラカミキリ - Anoplophora malasiaca - pied longhorn beetle (deceased)

ゴマダラカミキリ - Anoplophora malasiaca - pied longhorn beetle (deceased)

White Lumpy Weevil

A lovely, large weevil from Japan. I think it mimics bird droppings.

Shirokobuzoumushi - Episomus turritus

Shirokobuzoumushi - Episomus turritus

Shirokobuzoumushi - Episomus turritus

Japanese Tiger Beetle

ハンミョウ- Japanese tiger beetle - Cicindela chinensis japonica

ハンミョウ- Japanese tiger beetle - Cicindela chinensis japonica

ハンミョウ- Japanese tiger beetle - Cicindela chinensis japonica

Pleasing Fungus Beetle

Monday Mushroom #95

Here is a pleasing fungus beetle Erotylus Spp? having a lovely time on some Pycnoporus sanguineus fruiting bodies in the Bolivian cloud forest.

 

The pleasing fungus beetles - Erotylidae - is a large family of beetles. Many of which - though by no means all of them - feed on fungi.

Excitable May Beetles

Wildlife Wednesday #21

These May beetles were very excited about something - possibly by the presence of other May beetles - and wouldn't sit still for one second.

Can't Quite Reach...

Wildlife Wednesday #2

Dor Beetle - Geotrupes Spp.