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Here's a new long-horn beetle for our house and garden: the NZ endemic *Eburida quadriguttata*.

This one flew into our house yesterday evening and landed next to my computer, so I photographed it. I've been recording all the species in our garden for over 15 years and this is the first time I've seen this species.

It's also the 14th observation of this species from the Christchurch District on #iNaturalist (and those are all the observations from here on #GBIF ).

I'm not sure why it is seen so infrequently. I read that their larvae have been reared from a wide range of native plants, from Clematis and bush lawyer vines to beech and rātā trees. The grubs take two years to develop and emerge from late August, so this one's right on time.

Welcome to our home.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/397135761

#insects #beetles #Coleoptera #nz #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #Cerambycidae

Here's a new long-horn beetle for our house and garden: the NZ endemic *Eburida quadriguttata*.

This one flew into our house yesterday evening and landed next to my computer, so I photographed it. I've been recording all the species in our garden for over 15 years and this is the first time I've seen this species.

It's also the 14th observation of this species from the Christchurch District on #iNaturalist (and those are all the observations from here on #GBIF ).

I'm not sure why it is seen so infrequently. I read that their larvae have been reared from a wide range of native plants, from Clematis and bush lawyer vines to beech and rātā trees. The grubs take two years to develop and emerge from late August, so this one's right on time.

Welcome to our home.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/397135761

#insects #beetles #Coleoptera #nz #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #Cerambycidae

Here's a new long-horn beetle for our house and garden: the NZ endemic *Eburida quadriguttata*.

This one flew into our house yesterday evening and landed next to my computer, so I photographed it. I've been recording all the species in our garden for over 15 years and this is the first time I've seen this species.

It's also the 14th observation of this species from the Christchurch District on #iNaturalist (and those are all the observations from here on #GBIF ).

I'm not sure why it is seen so infrequently. I read that their larvae have been reared from a wide range of native plants, from Clematis and bush lawyer vines to beech and rātā trees. The grubs take two years to develop and emerge from late August, so this one's right on time.

Welcome to our home.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/397135761

#insects #beetles #Coleoptera #nz #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #Cerambycidae

Here's a new long-horn beetle for our house and garden: the NZ endemic *Eburida quadriguttata*.

This one flew into our house yesterday evening and landed next to my computer, so I photographed it. I've been recording all the species in our garden for over 15 years and this is the first time I've seen this species.

It's also the 14th observation of this species from the Christchurch District on #iNaturalist (and those are all the observations from here on #GBIF ).

I'm not sure why it is seen so infrequently. I read that their larvae have been reared from a wide range of native plants, from Clematis and bush lawyer vines to beech and rātā trees. The grubs take two years to develop and emerge from late August, so this one's right on time.

Welcome to our home.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/397135761

#insects #beetles #Coleoptera #nz #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #Cerambycidae

Here's a new long-horn beetle for our house and garden: the NZ endemic *Eburida quadriguttata*.

This one flew into our house yesterday evening and landed next to my computer, so I photographed it. I've been recording all the species in our garden for over 15 years and this is the first time I've seen this species.

It's also the 14th observation of this species from the Christchurch District on #iNaturalist (and those are all the observations from here on #GBIF ).

I'm not sure why it is seen so infrequently. I read that their larvae have been reared from a wide range of native plants, from Clematis and bush lawyer vines to beech and rātā trees. The grubs take two years to develop and emerge from late August, so this one's right on time.

Welcome to our home.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/397135761

#insects #beetles #Coleoptera #nz #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #Cerambycidae

Hace unos días, PuchiUna publicó unos vídeos y fotos donde uno que estaba criando retenía la cabeza de larva, pero no era funcional y no podía comer. #escarabajos #beetles #coleoptera #insectos #insects

A Beetle Mania Walk

https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/ram_k/135409-a-beetle-mania-walk

#beetle #coleoptera #nature #naturewalk #southindia #indiasnature #entomology #plants #flowers #landscape

Close-up frontal portrait of a dark longhorn beetle (likely Morimus sp., Cerambycidae)
#longhornbeetle #Cerambycidae #Morimus #macrophotography #insectportrait #beetleantennae #wildlifemacro #entomology #closeup #coleoptera #naturephotography #macro

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

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

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

went to the park and flipped a log which was in icy ankle-deep slush but still yielded the usuals.

#bugstodon #insects #springtails #beetles #mites #Mitestodon #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Coleoptera #Staphylinidae #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Hymenoptera

So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

Heads up #SoilBiodiversity & #SoilZoology people --> #SafeTheDate submit an abstract and register for:

- XIX International Colloquium of Soil Zoology (ICSZ)
- XVI International Colloquium of Apterygota (ICA)

Where? Cape Town, #SouthAfrica
When?: 26-30 August 2024
Info?: http://www.icsz2024.org/

📬 #AbstractSubmission Deadline is 30 April!!! Send them in now! ✏️

#SoilFauna #SoilScience #Collembola #Acari #Myriapoda #Coleoptera #Nematodes #SoilMacroFauna #Earthworms #SoilMesoFauna #SoilMicrofauna

Cryptocephalus sericeus sericeus Canon 7D EF 100 2.8 f/ 4 1/400 iso: 250 MIlovice, Czech Republic 6/13/2014 #Chrysomelidae #Cryptocephalus #Coleoptera #Beetles #FlowerBeetles #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands #ShinyThing

Cryptocephalus sericeus sericeus Canon 7D Ef 100 2.8 f/4 1/400 iso: 250 Milovice, Czech Republic 6/13/2014 #beetles #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #BroadShoulderedBeetles #FlowerBeetles #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Jewel Beetle, Anthaxia podolica Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5 1/250 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/29/2010
#buprestidae #Coleoptera #jewelBeetles #pests #FlowerBeetles #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands #insectphotography #canon #canonphotography

Lily Beetle, Lilioceris merdigera Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/250 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/23/2010
#Chrysomelidae #Chrysomelid #FlowerBeetles #beetles #Coleoptera #pests #insects #invertebrates #macro

Tonight I got a picture of a black vine weevil (_Otiorhynchus sulcatus_), on a vine. That is all.

#insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Solanaceae