Meet Rhinocyllus conicus (the Nodding Thistle Receptacle Weevil). Native to Eurasia and North Africa, it was introduced to the United States in 1969 as a biocontrol for invasive thistle. However, it began attacking native thistles also. The larvae feed on the flower receptacle, reducing seed production.
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.
This beetle is tiny. Maybe 3.5 mm. It is the very common Green Dock Beetle (Gastrophysa viridula). I was surprised to see only one of them today. This is a female, bloated with eggs.
#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
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #jewelbeetles #jewels #scarabs
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
Some kind of June beetle? It was on European plum blossom. I went back to collect it later but it was gone.
I am so excited for the drop of my insect magnets tonight! This might be my favourite type of product I've made so far and I hope you love them as much as I do!
They will be released on my website at 6pm UTC+1! You can already preview them 
https://evanskyarts.com/en/collections/magnets 
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
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #endemic
Ellychnia corrusca, the winter firefly, recently befriended by granddaughter Penelope.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "The Hunters and the Hunted" shows a snake (Eoconstrictor) about to eat a basilisk lizard (Geiseltaliellus), about to eat a beetle (unidentified).
#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
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #longhorn
The Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) can be a major agricultural pest. Its larvae, called corn rootworms, primarily feed on roots, while adults chew leaves, flowers, and fruit, damaging cucumbers, squash, melons, and other crops.
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. 
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
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.
So richtig fängt das Insekten-Frühjahr für mich erst an, wenn die Feld-Sandlaufkäfer (Cicindela campestris) wieder auf der Jagd sind.
