#buprestis

[tetrameryxx]

Wood borer angel, why are you so stunning

Buprestis aurulenta

[cnestus]

metallic woodboring beetle

[onenicebugperday]

Golden jewel beetle, Buprestis aurulenta, Buprestidae

Found in western North America

Photo 1 by tshahan, 2-8 by thomasbarbin, 9 by harsiparker, and 10 by beespeaker

[wiggloid]

I would like to hear you gush about one of your favorite beetles or other insects if you don't have a favorite beetle.

oh man, there's so many different kinds of beetles that it's difficult to choose just one! i do have a couple that live in my region (upper pacific northwest) that are really cool though:

i tend to see golden jewel beetles (Buprestis aurulenta) most often during the summer because that's when the adults start emerging from their host trees - buprestids are wood-borers in their larval stage and B. aurulenta specializes in conifer trees like douglas fir and western redcedar, which they eat and live in for a few years before they're ready to pupate. i took this picture a couple years ago at my work, which is right next to several dozen acres of undeveloped mixed forest, and while i haven't seen any this year i'm sure there's at least a few on the way!

bronze ground beetles (Carabus nemoralis) aren't actually native to the pacific northwest, but as far as i know they're not a full-blown invasive species. they're not enormous, but at just over an inch long they're not puny either (ten-lined june beetles are bigger, but they live on the other side of the cascades from me) and they have a wonderful purplish-green sheen to their carapace and elytra. these guys trundle through the grass under cover of night looking for slugs, worms and smaller, less fortunate insects to eat - the one in this picture was actually collected on a late-night walk while i was at school!

[fantabulisticity]

@eastern-hercules-beetle So, it IS a buprestid! I love these motherfuckers! It just looked a little different than the other buprestids I see around here so I wasn't sure. Thank you so much!

Photo ID: a cropped screenshot of the previous reblog's tags, which read: "#buprestis maculativentris #i was convinced this thang was in the genus dicerca for like an hour #but that little face says otherwise :)"

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

[expfcultragreen]

Favorite bug you cant have it

[reportsofagrandfuture]

We really need to save these

[ericvanderburg]

THE BUPRESTIS-HUNTING CERCERIS

http://dlvr.it/SpN07Z

[birdsareblooming]

easy

Jewel - Golden Buprestis

give me a challange

i think finding out the species of sonic characters is like special power. like i fucking activate chaos control to do it i do it so fucking fast somethings wrogn with me

[photapir]

Golden Buprestid Cypriacis aurulenta on the fence along the south side of Poplar St. just west of 162nd Ave. in Vancouver, WA, 18 June 2020. https://bugguide.net/node/view/74029

[infinitystation]

crawlin 🪲

[cnestus]

closeup of the elytra of Buprestis salisburyensis

[wapiti3]

Buprestis

By Olivier, G. A. (Guillaume Antoine), 1756-1814 Panzer, Georg Wolfgang Franz, 1755-1829 Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848 Publication info Germany? :s.n.,18–? Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries BIODIV LIBRARY

[onenicebugperday]

can i get an id on these guys? caterpillar was seen in mableton and the second one in marietta (both georgia) and can you remove the locations please? ty!

***I can't remove locations from asks, so the asker gave me permission to leave them in.

The caterpillar friend is a tiger moth, but I can't say which one for sure. Possibly a Virginian tiger moth. The beetle is a red-legged buprestis beetle :)

[boguskudos]

made a new friend at work

Buprestis aurulenta, or Golden Jewel Beetle

[bowelfly]

female bark beetles in the genus Pityogenes tend to have depressions in their face, but Pityogenes carinulatus really takes it to a new level. i'm not exactly sure what the purpose of these pits are but my guess is it carries spores of symbiotic fungi, since many other bark/ambrosia beetles have similar mycangial structures elsewhere on their bodies.

not to be confused with incidental face holes, such as this neglected pinned Buprestis specimen that someone let sit out unprotected long enough for a dermestid larva to eat a hole in its face