#chafer beetle

[dorcushopei]

Uhm woolly chafer beetle pixel art

I like translating color palettes to a value scale

[heaveninawildflower]

Pink hyacinth and rose chafer beetle (18th century) by Barbara Regina Dietzch (Bavaria, 1706 – 1783).

Gouache on vellum.

Bibliothèque nationale de France.

[bowelfly]

snug as a bug in a rug

[tardigradetv]

Caught a chafer beetle midair

[coleopetrans]

American Rose Chafer Beetle

Macrodactylus Subspinosus

[bugs-in-the-meadow]

I was getting a late night snack when I heard something bump into the door, and when I went out to check I found this little maybug stuck on his back. I helped him up and he flew in, so I took a few pictures before taking him out to find a bush. I've never held one before, eat least not an alive one (I've collected a few dead ones over the years), and was surprised by how clingy and scratchy their feet are.

Maybugs, Melolontha melolontha, are also known as cockchafer beetles. They have several other names too, my favourite of which is snartlegog. A delight.

This one is most likely a common maybug, and I think it's a male. Males have seven lamellae - the leaf-like parts on the tip of their antenna - on each side, while females only have six. Females also have a notably pointier part on the end of their abdomen, which is the ovipositor, for laying eggs.

Maybugs apparently spend up to 5 years underground as grubs, and once they emerge, in the summer months, they only last for around six more weeks. They're often seen at night, flying around rather haphazardly, and while they're quite loud and can be surprising, they're not harmful (unless you're grass).

Sources & more info:

Maybug - Buglife Blog - Buglife

Find out more about Maybug in the Buglife blog.

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

[lazchance]

i have an impressive backlog of beetle observations that im proud of... but i havent submitted most of them. im unsure what kinda beetles people wanna see... comment or dm me anything you wanna see and ill look through my collection!

during the summertime... those of yall who leave your windows open might see these june bugs in your home... theyre those shiny little beetles that fly into your room at night and start banging into the lights repeatedly. thud... thud... thud...

here's one that many of you mightve seen before... the brown leaf chafer (Anomala obsoleta). a very common and urban species. i wanna showcase these photos because take a closer look at this normally unremarkable beetle...

notice its surprisingly beautiful legs and fuzzy white hair under its abdomen... the slight tinge of bright red on the tip of its legs... and the beautiful small patches of bluish-green iridescence hidden on its elytra among all the brown punctated shell... i love them

[zt2cans]

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