#coleptera

[beausbugbiome]

Today is my ✨30th Birthday!✨

I celebrated last night with my friends and bugs, of course! We had a some people come over and do an invertebrate presentation— best birthday ever!!

I hand sewed those sequins onto my dress, they’re made of beetle elytra! I also handmade my earrings and headband! 💚

If anyone feels so inclined, I’d love some bugs in my inbox. 🪲💕

[herpsandbirds]

Heroic Pleasing Fungus Beetle (Megalodacne heros), family Erotylidae, on Golden Reishi, WG Jones State Forest, Conroe, Montgomery County, TX, USA

photographs by Paxon Kale CC

[brella-boi]

Gynandromoprhic Angel Beetles swoop in!

These are now real and officially available for grabs. Thank you to everyone who put down a pre-order for these earlier! You can now pick up any of these without a wait time :]

We got the trans, nonbinary and intersex representation going strong!

The trans beetle has rose gold plating; the intersex beetle has silver plating; and the nonbinary beetle has black nickel plating.

Link in source and replies to listing!

[naturalist-journal]

[pogomcl]

Stenocorus meridianus Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 f/8 1/320 iso: 125 Srbsko, Czech Republic 6/4/2023

[typhlonectes]

Life Cycle of a Hercules Beetle

The male Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) is instantly recognizable by its long black horn, but its life cycle is mostly hidden in nature. These large rain forest creatures experience metamorphosis from eggs to larvae, to pupae, to adult beetles during a 19 to 21-month process.

See a series of moments from a Hercules Beetle’s long life cycle in this 2.5-minute video from professional insect breeder Adrian Kozakiewicz of InsecthausTV.

According to the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences team, the larval stage alone takes around 550 days or a year and a half: “50 days (first instar), 56 days (second instar), and 450 days (third instar)...”

Read more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/life-cycle-of-a-hercules-beetle

[solovogliadivivere]

Reguz, ho fatto questo canale Telegram per parlare di animaletti carini che la maggior parte delle volte sono odiati, non si sa bene perché.

Forse conoscerli vi aiuterà a combattere la paura!

https://t.me/arthropodlove

[calosoma-amitch]

July is here, which means the Dogbane beetles are out! Dogbane Beetle (Chrysochus auratus), Newark DE. July 2017.

Easily one of our most beautiful beetles in the Mid-Atlantic, the dogbane beetle is a common visitor to gardens, fields, meadows, and roadsides, where their host plant can be found. 

The beetles feed exclusively on dogbane (Apocynum spp.), with the adults feeding on leaves, and larvae feeding on roots. The adults are seen in mid-summer on dogbane, where they will mate and lay eggs on the leaves and stems.