Image of the Camphor shoot borer Cnestus mutilatus
The Camphor Shoot Borer (๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ด, #Coleoptera: #Curculionidae: #Scotylinae) is an adventive bark #beetle found in sweetgum and a few other hardwoods. But it is also found in plastic fuel storage containers: t.co/UpVMgx2lJs #AmazingBeetles #Beetles #Macrophotography #Macro
Orange and Black firefly from Puerto Rico sitting on leaf
Rufolychnia borencona, a #firefly endemic to Puerto Rico. One of the prettiest fireflies I have encountered so far.
#AmazingBeetles #Lampyridae #WestIndies #FireflyMagic
A beetle with spectacular antennae at a blacklight sheet
Just a Dendroides concolor. That's all!
#Pyrochroidae #AmazingBeetles #FireColoredBeetles
Two leaf beetles mating on blacklight sheet
More Chrysomela scripta to be made. Blacklight sheet love affair.
#Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #AmazingBeetles #Sexonsixlegs
Image of pink and black short-snouted weevil
Hawthorne Trail find: Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi (#Coleoptera: #Curculionidae) one of the Sesbania clown #weevils. #AmazingBeetles #Florida #clownweevil #Gainesville
Frontal view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax
Side view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head, thorax, and abdomen
Top view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax,
Feast your eyes on Sparmannia flava. Maybe the greatest melolonthine of them all. That "winter" coat though...
#AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Africa #Scarabaeidae #Winteriscoming
Pinned acorn weevil with long proboscis
Pinned weevil with shorter proboscis
Is snoot envy a thing in weevils??? #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Curculionidae
Large weevil with setose (=hairy) snoot
Large weevil with setose (=hairy) snoot
Close-up of setose (=hairy) snoot
#CollectionCuriosities Rhinostomus barbirostris, the bearded #weevil, is maybe my favorite weevil and look at that bottle brush snoot #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Curculionidae
Tiny rainbow colored beetle on pin
Tiny rainbow colored beetle on pin
When your morphology tries to make you look like bird poop, but you dress like a rock star.
#Chlamisus #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #FSCA #AmazingBeetles #Bolivia
Image of a large beetle on an adult hand.
Image of a tattoo with a large beetle burying out of human skin with the One Ring from Lord of the Rings on its horn surrounded by the One Ring poem in elfish script.
Chalcosoma sp. on my hand and in my
#entomology #tattoo. Good thing only one of them has found the ONE ring #LOTR. What #AmazingBeetles they are.
Show me your entomology tattoos!
Our revision and phylogeny of Thonalmus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) is finally out, with the discovery of 7 new species! In your opinion, which of these is prettier? Publication available for download at: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #AmazingBeetles
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