#Histeridae

[cnestus]

assorted creatures from work

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[bowelfly]

a histerid beetle in the genus Haeterius, collected in southern california. these live in the nests of Formica ants. unfortunately the genus is very poorly studies and it's extremely hard to determine which species is without a specialist taking a much closer look. first photo taken using my lab's actual imaging system, next two just using my phone camera and microscope, and final one isn't my specimen or my picture but is a nice SEM by Michael Catarino of a member of the same genus showing off their weird little face

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Histeridae PRINTS by alicesnowart

[professional-jaywalker]

This is my blog so woe! Bugs be upon you.

My guesses are : Weevil (Lixus), solitary bee (perhaps Ceratina?), a white spotted rose beetle (Oxythyrea funesta), a nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis), an orbweaver (Gibbaranea bituberculata), a shield bug (Aelia), a sixteen spot ladybeetle (Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata), a dock bug (Coreus marginatus), and some sort of Histeridae (Margarinotus brunneus)

Edit : the order got all fucked up while uploading so last is first

[sithbian]

OMG FOR THE AUTISM ASKS 12, 42, 50: give me ur best infodump. hand it over.

u activated my trap card [ask meme]

12. Do you headcanon any characters as autistic? If you want, tell us why you headcanon them as autistic.

I headcanon so many characters as autistic, but I'm only going to do two. First, Rey from TFA (I don't remember the other two movies enough to bother with them), mainly bc I really relate to her aversion of being touched without her permission and I feel like her biggest interest is starships so of course she knows everything about them and their parts. The other is Leia--as soon as I read Princess of Alderaan, I immediately thought she was. She has a hard time socializing and knowing what's okay to talk about, social cues, etc. There's other things I'm blanking.

42. Tell us something about your special interest.

right so, it's entomology that i'm super into. and im just going to do a single fact since ur question 50 is just to infodump about it. there's a family of beetles (histeridae) that is referred to as clown beetles (there's also a clown weevil). they have short elytra.

50. Free question. Ask anything you want! Any topic at all! [aka; best infodump]

i'm just gonna infodump about my favorite insects in my collection or what i want to have bc theyre my absolute favorites (since entomology is a big thing with a lot of stuff in it).

so, my favorite moth is spilosoma lubricipeda, the white ermine moth. its a day-flying moth, characterized by its orange abdomen and white wings with black dots. they are poisonous. they have long antennae branches. and theyre found in europe and asia (they have a few sibling species in china) my favorite type of bee is the blue carpenter bee (xylocopa caerula). theyre like, the prettiest color of blue and theyre less aggressive compared to other carpenter bees (and their wings have a pinkish iridescence to them). theyre from southeast asia. this is getting really long so im not gonna go on a big ramble for the others but the two beetles i really like are the javan fiddle beetle and the japanese rhinoceros beetle (i want to get tattoos of both of them). other notable moths are the polyphemes moth, luna moth, and atlas moth.

[bugsandnaturethings]

Hololepta aequalis, Hister Beetle with phoretic mites

“Phoresy is used to describe a non-permanent, commensalistic interaction in which one organism attaches itself to another solely for the purpose of travel.”

[dendroica]

Newly discovered beetle catches a ride on the backs of army ants to get around

Dr. Christoph von Beeren of Germany’s Technical University Darmstadt was collecting “ant guests” during the nightly emigration of an army ant colony at La Selva Biological Station, a lowland Atlantic rainforest in Costa Rica, when he and his colleagues realized that the abdomens of some of the ants looked odd.

The researchers used their headlamps to get a better look. “From above it is difficult to detect the parasite, because the beetle closely resembles the ant’s abdomen,” von Beeren said in a statement. “When viewed from the side, however, it looks as if the ants had a second abdomen. To our surprise the odd looking ‘ant abdomens’ turned out to be beetles.”

Von Beeren and his colleagues described the newly discovered beetle species that they had spotted catching a ride on the backs of army ants in an article published in the journal BMC Zoology yesterday.

“To the human eye, the beetle is quite difficult to detect when attached to the ant as they are similar in size and shape to the host ants’ abdomen,” von Beeren added. “The outer shell of the beetle is also smooth and shiny, just like the ants. We think that by imitating this part of the ants’ body they might reduce the chance of recognition by the ants, allowing the beetle to travel undetected.”

In the BMC Zoology article, von Beeren and his co-author, Alexey Tishechkin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory, write that what they’d observed was an “exceptional mechanism of phoresy,” which is when two organisms form a symbiotic relationship in which one (in this case, the beetle) travels on the body of another.

Many other organisms, including additional species of beetles as well as flies, mites, silverfish, and wasps, are also known to exploit army ant colonies. These army ant-dependent species “often show astonishing adaptations such as chemical and morphological mimicry of ant workers, protective morphologies, as well as life history adaptations to the hosts’ life cycles,” the researchers write in the study.

The new beetle, named Nymphister kronaueri after Daniel Kronauer, an army-ant researcher at The Rockefeller University in New York who first discovered the species, uses its strong mandibles to anchor itself to ants’ bodies during the nomadic army ants’ regular emigrations to new nesting sites. N. kronaueri was only found hitching a ride on one particular army ant species, Eciton mexicanum, primarily on medium-sized workers, which von Beeren and Tisheckin say demonstrates that it is a highly specialized ant guest.

Neotropical army ant colonies cycle between stationary and nomadic phases, which last about three and two weeks, respectively, for ants in the Eciton genus, von Beeren and Tishechkin note in the study. A colony will stay at the same site during the stationary phase and emigrate to a new nest site every night during its nomadic phase.

Organisms that depend on ants for their own survival during at least part of their lifecycle are called “myrmecophiles” — which literally translates to “ant lovers.” “Since army ants are nomadic, myrmecophiles exploiting their societies share the need to track their host colonies during the frequent colony emigrations to new bivouac sites,” the researchers write. “They achieve this by riding on or being carried by the ants, or by walking independently on the ants’ emigration trail.”

[onenicebugperday]

Flattened clown beetle, Hololepta aequalis, Histeridae

Found in the US and Canada, primarily in the east

Photos 1-9 by treegrow and 10 (for scale) by beetlehunter000

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[cnestus]

some bugs i saw at work 2.V.2022 - 18.V.2022

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[bugboogie-blog]

((I’ve got a migraine today so I’ll be off and on a lot, I also might not be terribly talkative ooc. But until I feel like doing other stuff, here’s a bunch of random headcanons under the cut))

Oogie was raised in foster care from when he was born to when he was 18. He jumped houses a lot and could never stay in one house for more then a handful of years

He was a doctor for 10 years before his gambling addiction and alcoholism cost him the job

He originally bought his house to fit four people in it, as he hoped to one day have a family. Those plans fell through though and now he lives in the house alone. He lets Lock, Shock and Barrel stay in the three bedrooms whenever they feel like it.

No one is allowed in the basement of his house, not even Lock, Shock and Barrel. He actually turned the basement into his bedroom though typically he just passes out on the couch

The only thing he can cook that doesn’t come out completely disgusting is soup/stew and pot roasts in crock pots, typically he just eats out or orders in though.

His infamous “snake and spider stew” is actually steak and cider stew which is a stew he makes in the crock pot that has steak cut into long thing stripes(to look like snakes) and apple cider(alcoholic usually) in it along with potatoes, cut apple pieces and whatever vegetables he thinks should go in it.

He is extremely nihilistic

His favorite bug type is beetles with the Histeridae Beetle as his favorite class

After Halloween Oogie’s favorite Holiday is 4th of July because he can buy fireworks. He likes the noise fireworks make and will use them in his schemes.

His cell is an Iphone 6 with the screen cracked all to hell. He doesn’t really care about keeping up with technology and refuses to give this phone up until it’s deemed unusable by him

His car is an old dark green pick up truck that looks like it’ll fall apart at any moment but actually drives like a dream. Oogie often lets Lock, Shock and Barrel ride in the bed of the truck

[bowelfly]

more bugs from work. as always these are just IDed to the level i can get from gestalt or some quick perusing bugguide since they're not the ones i'm on the clock to look at

some kind of harvestman (Opiliones), a fancy green leaf beetle with pink wings (Chrysomelidae: Chrysolina sp.), a fancy rove beetle (Staphylinidae: Micropeplus sp.), an extremely small clown beetle (Histeridae: Bacanius sp.), a long-legged fly and its alien laser blaster lookin hog (Dolichopodidae)

[meowdys]

thats a good opinion....ok now. favorite beetle

THIS IS HARD uh......stag beetles and rainbow leaf beetles and the whole histeridae family!!