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beautiful specimens! monochamus sutor (pine sawyer), specifically a male due to the length of and lack of light colored bands on its antennae, and clytra laeviuscula (ant bag beetle). i do like these little friends :)

@eastern-hercules-beetle you may like these two

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Huge beetle I have seen on the street on my way home from work.

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A little long-horned beetle

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Rosemary Beetle (Chrysolina americana), family Chrysomelidae, Allesandria, Italy

photograph by Hectonichus

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it’s

Weevil Wednesday!!!

o joyous celebration of the snouted ones!

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her

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summer roses with a happy little visitor ✨🤍

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BUGS / BEETLES CW 🪲

noticed a LOT of fig beetles flying around today. we just so happened to have some overripe fruit we weren’t going to eat, so I offered them some and soon enough i had quite a few eating out of my hand 🥺

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Hey, thank you so much for identifying my buprestid earlier! I have another beetle question.

Are you able to identify these guys? I live in northern Idaho in the U.S., on the border of Idaho and Washington. The first beetle is some kind of carrion/burying beetle, specifically a kind that secretes that nasty-smelling chemical defense (it sprayed my glove when I picked it up), but I wasn't able to identify it beyond that. The second beetle I haven't tried looking up because I honestly don't know where to start, and beetle identification scares me 😅

Thank you! Bugs are wonderful 💜

the first one is nicrophorus marginatus, the margined burying beetle! visually separated from similar-looking species by their zigzag orange stripes, entirely black head, and antennae that are orange at the very end. they make small carrion into food-filled nests for their babies, like a bug pantry.

the second one is most likely necydalis diversicollis, a species with seemingly no agreed-upon common name. they have very short elytra, black wings, mostly black antennae, and either black or rusty heads. i can't be 1000% sure of this simply because it's so hard to find information about them online, but i'm still pretty confident since good sources have pictures of this species that look exactly like the one you found. very interesting species, had me fooled thinking they were a wasp (which i suspect is a defense mechanism to deter would-be predators)

the thing about beetles is that they get much more specific than, say, toads. you could theoretically ID a species with a lot of close lookalikes using only a good picture of it because of how particular it is. my general rule of thumb is, if i can't find an exact clone of the bug i'm trying to ID in pictures of a species i've looked up, it's probably not the right one. my default strategy is to do broad searches first, then refine it and sift through results until i find a match. i would go into more detail but i fear that it would make me sound insane.

thanks for the lovely buggie pictures! IDing them is very fun for me :)

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Found this Friend hiding in the bathroom at work yesterday morning!

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dunno if you’ve already found a match, but it’s most likely a larger elm leaf beetle, monocesta coryli!

a typical specimen will have black markings, as seen below:

but they can also be mostly or entirely orange/yellow, like the one you found!

their biggest giveaway is those massive feetsies compared to other ones you might find with a quick google search. they are also shaped quite a bit like a squash or perhaps a papaya

I found this little guy.

Don’t know exactly what it is, a beetle of some sort obviously.

I couldn’t find a match on google or in any of my books. If you know what it is please do tell.

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calosoma calidum, a species found in canada and also my towel i guess

the thing about bugs is that if you are looking for bugs, you will always find bugs. whether or not it makes any sense for them to be there is like the 5th most important thing at best. there will always be bugs.

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the thing about bugs is that if you are looking for bugs, you will always find bugs. whether or not it makes any sense for them to be there is like the 5th most important thing at best. there will always be bugs.

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@whilst-farting-i submitted: howdy! i found this round lil beauty outside my job (charleston, wv, usa) and figured id show yall since no one in the building knew what it was. any ideas?

Mhmmmm she's a female eastern Hercules beetle :)

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large and beautiful insects loove to repeatedly slam themselves into my window until i notice and then fuck off into the night as soon as i try to get a better look at them

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went to a reptile expo like a month ago and there were a bunch of these thangs flying around a tree

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i post irl bugs 👍 mainly beetles but on a rare occasion other bugs are cool enough to go here.

#queueleoptera - queued posts, for those i am not the op of

#arthropics - original pictures

i try to tag all bugs on this blog with their species :)

if you have a beetle pic and you want some guy (me!!!) to make an educated guess on what species it is please send it i love finding information about them

main is @questionable-doctor