Euophryum confines: a long narrow beetle with a longish rostrum and elbowed antennae. It is dark brown with blackish foreparts.

This Euophryum confine is the only member of the weevil subfamily Cossoninae that I’ve identified so far. Strange little things. #UKinverts #UKbeetles

Lasiorhynchites cavifrons, a beautiful hairy beetle I found underneath an Oak tree. At a glance it looks black but it has a strong blue metallic colouration, although in the photos this has come out looking more green than blue (the specimen is very definitely blue, hardly green at all). A Nationally Scarce species apparently. #beetle

The Apple Leaf Weevil with a very long scientific name: Tatianaerhynchites aequatus. This was one of two beaten from Rowan in the local churchyard. A dark-coloured #weevil with a long rostrum. The wing cases are metallic red, darker at the base.

A Birch Leaf Roller, Deporaus betulae. A smart black weevil which, despite its vernacular and scientific names suggesting an association with birch, is also associated with alder and hazel (this one was on hazel).

A Hazel Leaf-roller, Apoderus coryli, one of just two British members of the family Attelabidae. The elongate black head is separated from its bright scarlet body by a narrow neck. The base of the legs are scarlet like the body but the rest of the legs are mainly black.

The weevil families Rhynchitidae and Attelabidae are beautiful beetles. Here we have the Nationally Scarce Lasiorhynchites cavifrons, Tatianaerhynchites aequatus (Apple Leaf Weevil), Deporaus betulae (Birch Leaf Roller) and Apoderus coryli (Hazel Leaf-roller). #UKBeetles #UKInverts

Andrena flavipes

Colletes cunicularis - Early Colletes

Peacock Butterfly - first of the year for me

Chilling Cliffs, Hampshire. All my bee identifications should be treated with caution! And my first Nomad Bee of the year. The Peacock butterfly was more obliging as a subject.
#UKButterflies #insects #bees #UKInverts #wildlifephotography #OMsystem #TG5

Male Snow Flea on a dead leaf among moss on a tree stump. A tiny insect related to scorpionflies rather than fleas, with a downward-pointing beak like scorpionflies, but with short spine-like modified wings.

Another male Snow Flea in side view.

Dorsal view of a male Snow Flea.

Chuffed to bits to see Snow Fleas (Boreus hyemalis) today at Felbrigg. Huge thanks to @vannabartlett.bsky.social for finding them previously and providing directions and to @caryocatactes.bsky.social for spotting them first today - I hadn’t appreciated how tiny they would be! #UKInverts #SnowFlea

A predatory brown bug about 10mm long.

A new insect for me at the Dorset patch yesterday, Tree Damsel Bug Himacerus apterus It was on a bramble runner. #Bugs #UKinverts

Adonis blue

Common blue

Brown argus

Small blue

A blue day with @chrisdipperboyd.bsky.social in dark and cool conditions Wednesday. Adonis & common blue, plus brown argus at Devils dyke, Newmarket. Small blues at Magog Down. #ukbutterflies #ukinverts

A Great Pied Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens) in flight, side view. The wings are blurred. A drop of secretion is hanging from the end of its abdomen.

A volucella pellucens (Great Pied Hoverfly, Pied Plumehorn or Pellucid Fly depending on what website you're looking at) in flight at Hoe Rough in July. Only just got round to getting the photos off my camera - most were rear-end views or out of focus but this one turned out ok. #UKinverts

Rhinoceros Beetle (Sinodendron cylindricum) found on a Birch tree trunk in wet woodland on 4th July.

Rhinoceros Beetle (Sinodendron cylindricum) - side view showing the “rhino” horn.

Side view of Leiopus linnei swept from vegetation under an Oak tree on 4th July. This species was newly described in 2009 when it was separated from the very similar Leiopus nebulosa.

Dorsal view of Leiopus linnei. The pronotum pattern and puncturing was noticeably different from the only previous Leiopus I’ve found, which I identified as Leiopus nebulosa. The width of the frons, long hairs on sternite 7 and spermatheca shape helped secure the ID.

Catching up on some IDs from the summer. Here are two new beetles found during a bird survey on 4th July: Sinodendron cylindricum (Rhinoceros Beetle) and Leiopus linnei (one of a pair of species formerly lumped and known as Black-clouded Longhorn Beetle). #UKbeetles #UKinverts