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  1. Last night went out for a good bug ramble except I realized I forgot my light, so I went home and made do with my phone flash along the way. (OpenCamera has a torch flash mode where the flash is always on.)

    - _Leptinotarsa_ potato beetles mating
    - a huge _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider eating a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_)
    - an ant war (_Tetramorium_?), this was only one of two large patches, with skirmishes up and down the sidewalk
    - a *huge* sawfly larva? of some kind

    #ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #insects #beetles #ants #sawflies #Araneae #Clubionidae #Salticidae #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Symphyta

  2. "Glänzend"
    Dieser Bergblattkäfer ermöglichte ein "Porträt des Fotografen als Reflektion im Pronotum"

    "shiny"
    portrait of the photographer as a pronotal reflection

    Oreina cf. caerulea, Vogesen

    #FotoVorschlag @FotoVorschlag #chrysomelidae #Oreina #naturephotography

  3. In order to feed the hashtag #Calligrapha, let me present this Calligrapha pantherina from New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

    Everybody, have a closer look at insects and you will find beauty! (for example in the amazing pictures by @alexwild)

    #insects #macrophotography #chrysomelidae #png #biodiversity #naturePhotography #forLoveOfInsects

  4. A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.

    #Insects #Beetles #Calligrapha #Chrysomelidae

  5. Beetle #Clytra #laeviuscula (#Chrysomelidae) is #myrmecophilous. Its juveniles carry cases of feces for #antprotection. F. A. Agrain et al. (2015) state that myrmecophily in #leafbeetles only appears in #Clytrini and #Cryptocephalini within #Cryptocephalinae. Numbers of origins of the strategy are unknown, but there were preadaptations as e.g. feces cases.

    © This sci-com. text #StefanFWirth 2025

    Reference

    F. A. Agrain et al. (2015):
    doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.547.60

    #Photos
    © Me, Bln, new edits 2025

  6. It’s Saturday night. Here are two palmetto tortoise beetles with adorable feet having sex. #insects #coleoptera #beetles #Chrysomelidae

  7. The #antbagbeetle #Clytra laeviuscula (#Chrysomelidae, #Coleoptera) is a #phytophagous #beetle #species widespread in Europe with a #myrmicophilic relationship of the #larvae and #pupae to #antnests of the genera #Formica, #Lasius and Camponotus. The larva lives mainly from the food of the ant larvae. It is protected from ant attacks by own dropping pieces (#skatoconches). Pupation also takes place in this protected manner. #evolution #biodiversity

    © #StefanFWirth Berlin 2024

  8. Here's a redbud seed weevil (Gibbobruchus mimus) demonstrating its defensive posture. When viewed from afar it looks like caterpillar frass. #beetle #bruchid #coleoptera #insect #nature #chrysomelidae #entomology #MacroPhotography

  9. Red Poplar Beetle, Chrysomela populi Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/3.2 1/160 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Repubic 6/7/2012 #beetles #Chrysomelidae #leafBeetles #Coleoptera #pest #insect #invertebrates #macro #woodlands