#darkling beetles

[lazchance]

hello my dears... today i have an older shot of a beetle showing off its wings...

dark crimson beetle. iridescent elytra. clumsy personality. unidentified species from the genus Ceropria

[malikaieek]

IM A GRANDPA, MY DARKLING BEETLES HAD BABIES!!!

[miyrumiyru]

small bugs ♥️

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Submitting the forked fungus beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus! Profoundly uncharismatic. Even I, who spent six years studying them for a PhD, sometimes struggle to tell them from pieces of bark. Once you have one, it can even be hard to tell when they are alive or dead, since their defensive reaction to mammalian breath is to roll over and stay perfectly still.

But they have surprisingly complex social lives. We’ve mapped their social networks and found that individuals have personalities, meaning that they are consistent in whether they tend to interact with lots of others or stay by themselves: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8923822/

They can also tell a lot about each other from chemical cues. Females can tell whether a scent was left by a male who just won or lost a fight! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093714/

Females must choose among potential mates with different phenotypes in a variety of social contexts. Many male traits are inherent and uncha

Social network structure is a critical group character that mediates the flow of information, pathogens and resources among individuals in a

-Jack's note: Wow, that is so cool! What an interesting little critter!

[rattyexplores]

Many small black beetles which were a common sight on this particular log. After flooding, I found them elsewhere under logs.

The flooding seems to have brought these ground / wood burrowing insects to the surface.

18/12/23 - Polyphaga sp.

QLD:WET - Washed up flood debris; After Cyclone Jasper flooding

[fatchance]

Love’s sweet stinky embrace.

Desert stink beetles on the Fairbank Loop Trail. San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Cochise County, Arizona.

[homeofhousechickens]

what are the superworms you keep mentioning? :0

They are superworms like a big mealworm and in the same family, basically the grub form of a darkling beetle. I want to establish a colony for my chickens so they can have live wormies as a treat.

Here is my worms that are super i fed them a some carrots the other day

Here is two pupae the one on the left will be a beetle any day now and the one of the right needs more time. You can tell with how the legs darken

And this is a beetle, they are still hardening up, when thats done with will be a nice black color

Here is what they look like when they are fresh out of the pupae ( this is the same beetle as above)

[altamaranempire]

Posting a highly specific meme edit calling out the residents of my darkling beetle terrarium.