Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)

Gwynne's Mining Bee (Andrena bicolor)

Black Oil Beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus)

Black Oil Beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus)

Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes), Gwynne's Mining Bee (Andrena bicolor) & Black Oil Beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus) in West #Norfolk this morning. #bees #pollinators #solitarybees #oilbeetles #bugsky #insects #beetles

Lovely video! #OilBeetles

Digging! The oil beetles are out and about at The Bug Farm! Keep your eyes open for them on the paths...not sure that digging your burrow on a well-trodden path (used as a racetrack by a blind dog) is the most sensible evolutionary strategy! #mindyourstep #beetles #oilbeetles #TheBugFarm

Seeing lots of oil beetles at the moment. These are all different individuals seen on different days in the last week. @liamolds.bsky.social #oilbeetles

What a wonderful surprise this morning! Found this female Black Oil Beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus) on a footpath in my street 😁 Looking forward to checking for more individuals this week.

#OilBeetleHunt #oilbeetles

Great to be in North Wiltshire today delivering a Rugged Oil Beetle workshop for Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. After our indoor session, we headed to Morgan's Hill to search of the nocturnal beetles. It was colder than expected and we only found, but one is certainly better than none!

#oilbeetles