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It's #WeevilWednesday, enjoy this _Conotrachelus_ by the tracks at night.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Molytinae

A little dude from my garden…
#WeevilWednesday #Insect #Bug #Coleoptera #Photography #Nature #Garden #BugOfTheDay

A little dude from my garden…
#WeevilWednesday #Insect #Bug #Coleoptera #Photography #Nature #Garden #BugOfTheDay

If you have an opportunity to visit a freshly-burned forest, look for pyrophilic beetles (e.g., certain species in Sericoda, Melanophila, Monochamus) and flies (Microsania). Some have specialized antennae for detecting smoke, others use infrared-sensing areas on abdomen or thorax to locate hot spots. #fire #smoke #weather #canada #beetles #coleoptera #insects #flies #trees #forests

If you have an opportunity to visit a freshly-burned forest, look for pyrophilic beetles (e.g., certain species in Sericoda, Melanophila, Monochamus) and flies (Microsania). Some have specialized antennae for detecting smoke, others use infrared-sensing areas on abdomen or thorax to locate hot spots. #fire #smoke #weather #canada #beetles #coleoptera #insects #flies #trees #forests

If you have an opportunity to visit a freshly-burned forest, look for pyrophilic beetles (e.g., certain species in Sericoda, Melanophila, Monochamus) and flies (Microsania). Some have specialized antennae for detecting smoke, others use infrared-sensing areas on abdomen or thorax to locate hot spots. #fire #smoke #weather #canada #beetles #coleoptera #insects #flies #trees #forests

If you have an opportunity to visit a freshly-burned forest, look for pyrophilic beetles (e.g., certain species in Sericoda, Melanophila, Monochamus) and flies (Microsania). Some have specialized antennae for detecting smoke, others use infrared-sensing areas on abdomen or thorax to locate hot spots. #fire #smoke #weather #canada #beetles #coleoptera #insects #flies #trees #forests

#WeevilWednesday: some people have been confused about how female hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) use their long snouts, so here you go. Her mouthparts are at the end of the snout. She chews a tunnel down into the heart of the flowerbud. Then she turns around, extends her ovipositor (at the end of her abdomen), and lays eggs down the hole. The larvae have a safe place to grow, with plenty of food!

#bugstodon #insects #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

#WeevilWednesday: some people have been confused about how female hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) use their long snouts, so here you go. Her mouthparts are at the end of the snout. She chews a tunnel down into the heart of the flowerbud. Then she turns around, extends her ovipositor (at the end of her abdomen), and lays eggs down the hole. The larvae have a safe place to grow, with plenty of food!

#bugstodon #insects #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

#WeevilWednesday: some people have been confused about how female hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) use their long snouts, so here you go. Her mouthparts are at the end of the snout. She chews a tunnel down into the heart of the flowerbud. Then she turns around, extends her ovipositor (at the end of her abdomen), and lays eggs down the hole. The larvae have a safe place to grow, with plenty of food!

#bugstodon #insects #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

#WeevilWednesday: some people have been confused about how female hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) use their long snouts, so here you go. Her mouthparts are at the end of the snout. She chews a tunnel down into the heart of the flowerbud. Then she turns around, extends her ovipositor (at the end of her abdomen), and lays eggs down the hole. The larvae have a safe place to grow, with plenty of food!

#bugstodon #insects #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

Ooo! Ooo! A bunch of new beetle species and at least one new family, Bostrichidae.

Also, a big new Elaterid (click beetles) unlocked! I've never seen this one before. If you've never seen a "click beetle", this is how they get their name.

#Entomology #Beetles #coleoptera #PartyAtTheBugLight

Ooo! Ooo! A bunch of new beetle species and at least one new family, Bostrichidae.

Also, a big new Elaterid (click beetles) unlocked! I've never seen this one before. If you've never seen a "click beetle", this is how they get their name.

#Entomology #Beetles #coleoptera #PartyAtTheBugLight

My intuition about the dearth of insects at my bug light being due to the cold seems to be borne out tonight as the temperature went up significantly today. Four families of beetles already!

This is an unknown Elaterid, the "click beetle" family. There is also a little scarab out there and another fast predatory beetle that I haven't photographed yet.

#beetles #coleoptera #Entomology

My intuition about the dearth of insects at my bug light being due to the cold seems to be borne out tonight as the temperature went up significantly today. Four families of beetles already!

This is an unknown Elaterid, the "click beetle" family. There is also a little scarab out there and another fast predatory beetle that I haven't photographed yet.

#beetles #coleoptera #Entomology

Question for entomologists:
iNaturalist seems to think this is a wrinkled iron clad beetle Nosoderma plicatum (Phoeodes plicatus), [edit: after getting more pics tonight, it looks to me more like Phellopsis porcata, which is also in the Zopheridae family] which it seems to be, based on other photos have looked at online.

But, at least on iNaturalist, it would be a 60 mile northward range extension. Which is cool! But I'd like to have someone else look at it and confirm the ID.

I was struggling to get my stupid phone camera to zoom in and get a sharp photo of it, so these are the best that I have. Once I realized that it was not something common in this area, I went back out to the bug light to look for it, but could not find it.

The one way that this specimen seems to differ from the ones on Bug Guide is that it has slightly bulbous ends on its antennae, seemingly more so than the ones in the photos.

#coleoptera #beetles #Entomology #IDRequest

Question for entomologists:
iNaturalist seems to think this is a wrinkled iron clad beetle Nosoderma plicatum (Phoeodes plicatus), [edit: after getting more pics tonight, it looks to me more like Phellopsis porcata, which is also in the Zopheridae family] which it seems to be, based on other photos have looked at online.

But, at least on iNaturalist, it would be a 60 mile northward range extension. Which is cool! But I'd like to have someone else look at it and confirm the ID.

I was struggling to get my stupid phone camera to zoom in and get a sharp photo of it, so these are the best that I have. Once I realized that it was not something common in this area, I went back out to the bug light to look for it, but could not find it.

The one way that this specimen seems to differ from the ones on Bug Guide is that it has slightly bulbous ends on its antennae, seemingly more so than the ones in the photos.

#coleoptera #beetles #Entomology #IDRequest

Needed my rest and sleep today but had to log on for #WeevilWednesday. A hollyhock weevil (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) couple.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

Needed my rest and sleep today but had to log on for #WeevilWednesday. A hollyhock weevil (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) couple.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

Needed my rest and sleep today but had to log on for #WeevilWednesday. A hollyhock weevil (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) couple.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

Needed my rest and sleep today but had to log on for #WeevilWednesday. A hollyhock weevil (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) couple.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

An oddly shaped True Weevil (family Curculionidae) spotted at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore on 29 June 2025. Such huge eyes, on a stout body.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293672664 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Weevils #Curculionidae #Beetles #Coleoptera

Beetles from the other day:

- Red milkweed beetle (_Tetraopes tetrophthalmus_)—the scientific name translates as "four-eyes four-eyes", note how the antenna divides the eye in two; on its host plant, common milkweed (_Asclepias syriaca_)
- _Valgus hemipterus_ on Queen Anne's Lace (_Daucus carota_)
- Grapevine beetle (_Pelidnota punctata_) on Virginia creeper (_Parthenocissus quinquefolia_)
- Hairy flower scarab (_Trichiotinus_ sp.) on some kind of spiraea

All scarabs (family Scarabaeidae) except for the milkweed beetle who is a longhorn beetle (family Cerambycidae).

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #LonghornBeetles #ScarabBeetles #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae #Scarabaeidae #Cetoniinae #Rutelinae

A Longhorn Beetle, Anancylus griseatus, spotted at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore on 29 June 2025. It has an impressive pair of long antennas.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293672639 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Beetles #Coleoptera

Middle-aged lady, seeing me hunched over peering into the Queen Anne's Lace (_Daucus carota_) in a garden bed at the park: "Did you find it?"

Me, in an "oh my god, it's full of stars" tone: "I found them *ALL*!"

Lady, looking at the flowers: "They're beautiful, aren't they."

Me: "I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing but YES."

#bloomscrolling #bugstodon #insects #beetles #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #ArthroBeauty

#WeevilWednesday: I suspect this little fellow I found under a dead leaf in the strawberry patch is a strawberry root weevil (_Otiorhynchus ovatus_). Very sus. :thonking:

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

#WeevilWednesday: I suspect this little fellow I found under a dead leaf in the strawberry patch is a strawberry root weevil (_Otiorhynchus ovatus_). Very sus. :thonking:

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

#WeevilWednesday: I suspect this little fellow I found under a dead leaf in the strawberry patch is a strawberry root weevil (_Otiorhynchus ovatus_). Very sus. :thonking:

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

#WeevilWednesday: I suspect this little fellow I found under a dead leaf in the strawberry patch is a strawberry root weevil (_Otiorhynchus ovatus_). Very sus. :thonking:

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

Good morning, it's #WeevilWednesday! Tragically and inexplicably, the patch of hollyhocks in the park near me is devoid of hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) so far this year. God knows it's not because anyone takes care of that bit of park. Luckily I know of a few other gardens in the neighbourhood with weevil-ridden hollyhocks right by the sidewalk.

Here you can see the difference in length between the typical male and female snouts. The females' long snouts help them bore deep into the flower buds to lay eggs.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

Good morning, it's #WeevilWednesday! Tragically and inexplicably, the patch of hollyhocks in the park near me is devoid of hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) so far this year. God knows it's not because anyone takes care of that bit of park. Luckily I know of a few other gardens in the neighbourhood with weevil-ridden hollyhocks right by the sidewalk.

Here you can see the difference in length between the typical male and female snouts. The females' long snouts help them bore deep into the flower buds to lay eggs.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

Good morning, it's #WeevilWednesday! Tragically and inexplicably, the patch of hollyhocks in the park near me is devoid of hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) so far this year. God knows it's not because anyone takes care of that bit of park. Luckily I know of a few other gardens in the neighbourhood with weevil-ridden hollyhocks right by the sidewalk.

Here you can see the difference in length between the typical male and female snouts. The females' long snouts help them bore deep into the flower buds to lay eggs.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

Good morning, it's #WeevilWednesday! Tragically and inexplicably, the patch of hollyhocks in the park near me is devoid of hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) so far this year. God knows it's not because anyone takes care of that bit of park. Luckily I know of a few other gardens in the neighbourhood with weevil-ridden hollyhocks right by the sidewalk.

Here you can see the difference in length between the typical male and female snouts. The females' long snouts help them bore deep into the flower buds to lay eggs.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

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

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

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

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

It is Weevil Wednesday, and my Weekend starts early.
Not much is happening at work, so when I started running orders for Monday, I texted my boss to ask if I shouldn't just go home and stay there for a few days. Fortunately, he agreed.

#WeevilWednesday
#Bugstodon
#Entomology
#Beetles
#Weevils
#Coleoptera

It is Weevil Wednesday, and my Weekend starts early.
Not much is happening at work, so when I started running orders for Monday, I texted my boss to ask if I shouldn't just go home and stay there for a few days. Fortunately, he agreed.

#WeevilWednesday
#Bugstodon
#Entomology
#Beetles
#Weevils
#Coleoptera

It is Weevil Wednesday, and my Weekend starts early.
Not much is happening at work, so when I started running orders for Monday, I texted my boss to ask if I shouldn't just go home and stay there for a few days. Fortunately, he agreed.

#WeevilWednesday
#Bugstodon
#Entomology
#Beetles
#Weevils
#Coleoptera

It is Weevil Wednesday, and my Weekend starts early.
Not much is happening at work, so when I started running orders for Monday, I texted my boss to ask if I shouldn't just go home and stay there for a few days. Fortunately, he agreed.

#WeevilWednesday
#Bugstodon
#Entomology
#Beetles
#Weevils
#Coleoptera

To the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "Rainy Day People" (https://youtu.be/MdhRhGX3AG4): 🎶 Rainy day weevils… 🎶

#WeevilWednesday #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Larinae #Brentidae #Apioninae

To the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "Rainy Day People" (https://youtu.be/MdhRhGX3AG4): 🎶 Rainy day weevils… 🎶

#WeevilWednesday #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Larinae #Brentidae #Apioninae

To the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "Rainy Day People" (https://youtu.be/MdhRhGX3AG4): 🎶 Rainy day weevils… 🎶

#WeevilWednesday #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Larinae #Brentidae #Apioninae

To the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "Rainy Day People" (https://youtu.be/MdhRhGX3AG4): 🎶 Rainy day weevils… 🎶

#WeevilWednesday #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Larinae #Brentidae #Apioninae

More #WeevilWednesday because I can't resist: it's also a superb time to find the stunning green immigrant leaf weevils (_Polydrusus formosus_) on young willow shoots.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

Folks, this #WeevilWednesday I am thrilled to announce that the hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) are back!! The females are the ones with the extremely long snouts, for drilling into hollyhock buds.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

A nap ízeltlábúja a bogarak katicabogárfélék családjába tartozó kétpettyes katica - Adalia bipunctata https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/ketpettyes-katica/talalatok #kétpettyesKatica #AdaliaBipunctata #katicabogárfélék #Coccinellidae #bogarak #Coleoptera #CitizenScience

A nap ízeltlábúja a bogarak cincérfélék családjába tartozó havasi cincér - Rosalia alpina https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/havasi-cincer/talalatok #havasiCincér #RosaliaAlpina #cincérfélék #Cerambycidae #bogarak #Coleoptera #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány

This tiny beetle is hanging out on the flower of a starfruit tree. This is also done with my new DIY diffuser. Even though its very glossy, it works ok here. I have more to do though to make it at least slightly more diffuse.

#Nature #Photography #SriLanka #Beetles #Coleoptera #Macro #FleaBeetle #Luperomorpha