#dytiscus

[herpsandbirds]

Great Diving Beetle (Dytiscus marginalis), male, family Dytiscidae, Czeck Republic

photograph by Jan Hamrsky

[pogomcl]

King Diving Beetle, Dytiscus dimidiatus Canon 7D EF 100 2.8 f/3.2 1/200 iso: 320 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 9/8/2013

[s4ndg3m]

i found a picture of a great diving beetle larva and thought... wow that guys eyes look like an angry face. how cool would it be if a characters eyes were actually just little emotes faces. so here i am, exploring said idea. calling him Eustice Shrimpbug or something like that

[teknikolor-walters]

For all the times the idea of pirate iterations has been joked about i never thought I'd actually make one

[do-you-know-this-animal]

This is:

Dytiscus marginalis, aka great diving beetle, aka potápník vroubený

Fun fact!

They are skilled hunters and, being quite large, can even hunt small fish! They live in water, but can fly pretty well, although they do need to get out of the water in order to take off.

[antiqueanimals]

Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis)

The Entomologist's Text Book. Written and illustrated by John Obadiah Westwood. 1838.

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[knithacker]

Crochet a Great Diving Beetle Amigurumi .. aka Dytiscus Marginalis For Those Who Know … 👉 https://buff.ly/3tRAzo2

[eyed-hawkmoth]

great diving beetle (dytiscus marginalis)

[firebugseverywhere]

I found little larvae in my aunt's swimming pool! :-D

I think they're beetles? I'm pretty sure. Made a deal with my aunt to come take these home with me in the future since they're planning to use the swimming pool soon.

If anybody knows what beetle this is specifically, let me know! I'm really curious.

If it's Dytiscus marginalis it's actually under protection and thus it would be a bit illegal to kill them without reason. Saying that convinced my aunt to wait with the removal lol

Also saved this bumblebee (queen?), just look at how wet my girl is :-)

[what-do-bunyips-look-like]

Hi o/ What's your favorite bug and why?

I was so delighted to be asked this question! And such a hard choice!

Jumping spiders are probably my favourite and for all the same reasons everyone likes them; adorable, intelligent, charismatic, photogenic, etc. But I don't feel like that's a very interesting answer because everyone already knows jumping spiders are cool, so I'm going with a less popular fave of mine: predaceous diving beetles.

Here's one I found struggling in a dirty puddle in a parking lot a few years ago (temporarily housed in a tupperware before being relocated to a pond):

When it comes up to rest it's refilling the air bubble under it's elytra!   This is a midsized species, but the larger species in the genus Dytiscus are some of the biggest and most beautiful insects found in the northern areas where I grew up. The adults will eat just about anything they can catch and are top predators in small fish-less ponds.

(Tw animal death from 0:20 - 0:30.)

The larvae are fully aquatic and are just so fucked up (affectionate). They move in a way that is very elegant but also alien and kinda incredibly silly. They will also eat anything they can catch (tadpoles, dragonfly larvae, each other, etc) but whereas the adults just grab things and bite them to death with their mandibles, the larvae kill their prey by injecting digestive enzymes and then sucking up the liquid.

(Tw animal death starting at 4:00).

As a kid I spent a lot of time peering into ponds and water troughs for bugs, and I was naming these guys and sorting them into groups way before anyone ever thought to buy me a field guide. They're a big part of what got me interested in bugs in the first place and I still have a lot of nostalgia for them.

[herpsandbirds]

Great Diving Beetle (Dytiscus marginalis), male, family Dytiscidae, eastern Europe

photograph by Jan Hamrsky

[clavainov]

2024-04-01 easter monday!

[forest pond, carabus splendens, tadpole(?), lissotriton helveticus, rana, dytiscus nymph, more lissotriton helveticus]

[unseelie]

in limnology the professor wants to do a “plankton smackdown” where we pit various predatory aquatic invertebrates against each other in buckets according to a tier system. whoever isn’t eaten moves on to the next round. is this ethical? my money is on the dytiscus larva btw

[maarvaazsinak]

Met this sweet friend under some weeds I was clearing by some garages, after some online research I found out they're a Great Diving Beetle (Dytiscus marginalis), and they are indeed great at diving!

[antiqueanimals]

Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis). The Natural History of Insects; In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1835.

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[knithacker]

Crochet a Great Diving Beetle Amigurumi .. aka Dytiscus Marginalis For Those Who Know ... 👉 https://buff.ly/3tRAzo2