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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

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