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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

Identifying soil insect larvae is tricky sometimes. The next time I get a comment by a reviewer asking "Why only to family level?" I send him/her this photo. 😋

Left a Hydrophilidae larva (#Coleoptera), without legs...
Right a Scatopsidae larva (#Diptera)...

#entomology #SoilBiodiversity #insects

Hitchhikers are now getting cataloged !

Here are some dermestids (five different species!) found in other specimens that arrived to the collections, but are now being cataloged themselves.

#NaturalHistoryMuseum #donana #biodiversity #entomology #coleoptera

Melolontha melolontha (Linnaeus, 1758)

Snapped on Tuesday evening and published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2qZEBv5

#Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae #Melolonthinae #Melolonthini #Melolontha #Pentax #Macro #Beetle #Animal #Wildlife #Nature #Mywork #Photography

The #rustic #sailorbeetle #Cantharis #rustica (#Cantharidae, #Coleoptera) belongs to the #soldierbeetles, which are characterized by a #softbodied appearance due to a soft cuticle sclerotization (apomorphy). The #species is widespread throughout #Europe and often occurs on #drymeadows, forest edges and lowland #grasslands or #arableland. Larvae and adults live as #predators from other insects. The individual was #photographed 2020 North #Berlin. #biodiversity

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2024

The #rustic #sailorbeetle #Cantharis #rustica (#Cantharidae, #Coleoptera) belongs to the #soldierbeetles, which are characterized by a #softbodied appearance due to a soft cuticle sclerotization (apomorphy). The #species is widespread throughout #Europe and often occurs on #drymeadows, forest edges and lowland #grasslands or #arableland. Larvae and adults live as #predators from other insects. The individual was #photographed 2020 North #Berlin. #biodiversity

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2024

The #rustic #sailorbeetle #Cantharis #rustica (#Cantharidae, #Coleoptera) belongs to the #soldierbeetles, which are characterized by a #softbodied appearance due to a soft cuticle sclerotization (apomorphy). The #species is widespread throughout #Europe and often occurs on #drymeadows, forest edges and lowland #grasslands or #arableland. Larvae and adults live as #predators from other insects. The individual was #photographed 2020 North #Berlin. #biodiversity

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2024

The #rustic #sailorbeetle #Cantharis #rustica (#Cantharidae, #Coleoptera) belongs to the #soldierbeetles, which are characterized by a #softbodied appearance due to a soft cuticle sclerotization (apomorphy). The #species is widespread throughout #Europe and often occurs on #drymeadows, forest edges and lowland #grasslands or #arableland. Larvae and adults live as #predators from other insects. The individual was #photographed 2020 North #Berlin. #biodiversity

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2024

Oedemera podagrariae, Faslse Blister Beetle Canon 7D EF 100 2.8 f/3.5 1/400 iso: 250 Milovice, Czech Republic 6/13/2014 #beetles #Oedemaera #thickthighed #thickthighs #Coleoptera #fatlegs #grasslands #pollinators

False Blister Beetle, Oedemera podagrariae, Canon 7S EF 100 2.8 f/ 3.5 1/400 iso: 260 Milovice, czech Republic 6/13/2014 #ThickThighs #Fatlegs #Oedemera #Coleoptera #Beetles #AmazingBeetles #Isects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands

False Blister Beetles, Oedemera lurida canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/ 2.8 1/250 iso: 250 Celakovice-Jirina Czech Republic June 14, 2023 #Oedemera #FalseBlisterBeetles #thickthighs #Coleoptera #beetles #fatlegs #insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands