#beetle biology

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Blister Beetles: Pretty colors, serious powers

🌿🐞 Did you know about Nuttall’s Blister Beetles? These vibrant insects are a part of our local parks and greenspaces, often found on flowers like lupines and milk-vetch.  🌼 While they may look beautiful with their bright colors, handling them can be risky!  🚫 Their bodies contain cantharidin, a toxin that causes skin blistering if mishandled. Here’s how to enjoy nature safely:  👀 Spot them…

[hellsitegenetics]

okay so i'm looking for another project and i'm lacking some creative inspiration so here goes.... whatever organism BLAST says my ask is, i will try and make out of clay!!! hopefully no super thin parts or really tall but if that's what the BLAST gods deem appropriate, oh well.

ALSO i love this blog so much !!!! thank you for sparking joy on this hellsite <333333

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Closest match: Ocypus olens genome assembly, chromosome: 5 Common name: Devil's Coach Horse Beetle

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[j-tee]

Working on a big ass dinosaur post but until then get beetled

[ink-the-artist]

Commission for @elephantbitterhead !

[koenji]

green iridescent beetles (png)

[nemfrog]

Coleoptera. Dr. Sulzers Abgekürtze Geschichte der Insecten. 1776.

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[copperpipes]

By the way

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Insects Finale!

Coleoptera. This order is made up of beetles. It is the largest of all orders, containing 25% of all known animal species. Members include ladybugs, fireflies and hercules beetles

Hymenoptera. This order is made up of wasps, ants, and bees. Their mouthparts are adapted for chewing, or in many species have become a proboscis for sucking nectar.

[samimarkart]

sale in my etsy shop this week if you see something you like :)

[dokupine]

is there any distinction between a shellcreeper and a koopa in your mario au

yes, there is! Shellcreepers are the extinct ancestor of koopas and their relatives. Some of their relatives strayed pretty far from the original design. (See cladogram below the cut)

[hawkpartys]

my friends got me hooked on the newest trend: making transparent bug images part 1/??

(all from photographs taken by me)

[bootleg-nessie]

Wake up babe, new taxonomy classification system just dropped

Since 25% of species on earth are beetles, so I have decided the scientific community should start classifying things as “beetle,” “not a beetle,” and “sort of a beetle.” I have provided examples below

(For all intents and purposes, a beetle is defined as being small, having 6 legs, an exoskeleton, and the ability to fly)

[hellsitegenetics]

I got a pet pac-man frog recently and for the life of me I cannot come up with a good name for them, so I'm gonna roll the BLAST dice and see what comes up from this :D

Their too young to sex for now, and they're a coffee morph (Which means their much more brown and less green than normal), and I love them dearly already

They're still pretty small, so they're in a small little plastic container for now until they grow big enough to be in the 20 gallon-long tank I have

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Closest match: Pterostichus madidus genome assembly, chromosome: 8 Common name: Black Clock Beetle

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[mindblowingscience]

Bats, as the main predator of night-flying insects, create a selective pressure that has led many of their prey to evolve an early warning system of sorts: ears uniquely tuned to high-frequency bat echolocation. To date, scientists have found at least six orders of insects—including moths, beetles, crickets and grasshoppers—that have evolved ears capable of detecting ultrasound. But tiger beetles take things a step further. When they hear a bat nearby, they respond with their own ultrasonic signal, and for the past 30 years, no one has known why.

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[overdoso]

Besouro-das-folhas-de-paropsina-pontilhada, o Paropsis atomaria é um besouro comum da subfamília Chrysomelinae. O nome específico, atomaria , significa "manchado" ou "sardento". Esta espécie é encontrada no leste da Austrália, de Adelaide a Brisbane.

[koenji]

alien-looking bugs (png).