#ground beetles

[celestial-games]

GROUND BEETLES

When I think about ground beetles I usually think of tiny black beetles, but they are so much more than that. The family also includes all the tiger beetles of course, so I figured that if my game was going to include a hundred species of tiger beetles then the rest of the family needed to be properly represented as well. I tried to include a good variety of species :] Here are all of the non-tiger beetle carabids I've made so far (+1 sneaky tiger beetle if you can spot it)

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[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.

Internet Archive

1.) Orchesella cincta

2.) Onychiurus sp.

3.) Campodea staphylinus

4.) Abax ovalis

5.) Notiophilus rufipes

6.) Penthetria holosericea

7.) Tipula scripta

8.) Red wood ant (Formica rufa)

9.) Geophilus sp.

10.) Brown Centipede (Lithobius forficatus)

11.) Polydesmus complanatus

12.) Julus sp.

13.) Glomeris marginata

14.) Pardosa palustris

15.) Nothrus silvestris

[snototter]

Carabus auronitens, a ground beetle, in Brussels, Belgium

by Frank Vassen

[rattyexplores]

Ground beetle spotted in a puddle.

Found a few this time of year.

04/12/23 - Myriochila semicincta

QLD:WET - Rainforest nursery

[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!

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTO TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2023 | Image ID: A photo of a shiny black ground beetle with fairly large head on a patch of grey and green dirt /End ID.]

[ladyorlandodream]

😭😭😭

Kinda difficult

[onenicebugperday]

Tiger beetle, Therates dimidiatus, Carabidae

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[bug-kid-benny]

whenever im putting something like a ground beetle back outside onto the patio and I think I'm putting it down really gently but it rolls off my hand and makes a big super audible CLACK noise hitting the pavement from like half an inch off the ground falling onto its back I feel so bad I'M SORRY BENNY JUNIOR !!! i know that they probably could withstand it but i hope they don't get the insect equivalent of a concussion

bugs seem so fragile yet so indestructible at the same time I think shes okay though I wish I took a photo of her that's the first ground beetle I've seen this year I think she was a big-headed ground beetle but I might be wrong I'm pretty sure of it though

[herpsandbirds]

Red-margined Ground Beetle Beetle (Mouhotia cf. gloriosa), family Carabidae, Province de Houaphan, northern Laos

photograph by Alexandre Teynié

[pelagodes]

Notched-mouth ground beetle is built like a hot wheels

[fandolion]

Some crunchy pics of iridescent bugs I've found 💚

[hellsitegenetics]

can you please do "two headed calf" by laura gilpin?

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

String identified: T t a t a at, t a a a ca t t .

t tgt a a t t t t. t a ct g: t g t ca, t t ga. A a ta t t , t a tc a a ta a a.

Closest match: Clivina fossor genome assembly, chromosome: 7 Common name: Ground beetle

[imagecurator]

Tyrant Ground Beetle and Millipede

[bugtheories]

Carabidae / ground and tiger beetles

Agonum viduum - 2023

Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus) - 2024

Carabus - 2024

Carabus coriaceus - 2024

[cuttledreams-bugs]

Underground gang rise up

July theme: Subterranean

Surface: Cave beetle (Sinotrechiama yunnanus)

2. Underground: Velvet worm (Peripatopsis alba)

3. Troglofauna: Cave pseudoscorpion (Titanobochica magna)

4. Stygofauna: Parabathynelid (Brevisomabathynella)

Bonus drawings in the read more!

Being sleepy as I am while working, I somehow managed to flip not just one but two of the species. I did not really grasp the mistake until some time away and coming back to post, at which I went "uhhhhh these don't match the categories" and rushed to repaint them lmao.

Bummer in that I was pretty happy with the drawings, but not-as-bummer because I can still share them o. o

Literally not even a cave dwelling species lmao

An easy fix for this one thankfully; this beetle is actually extremely close to the correct species Sinotrechiama yunnanus, I'd just instead referenced Giraffaphaenops clarkei, having mixed up the two species while setting up my references. (tbh looking again I shoulda made this guy even lankier going by the refs but that's okay)

I love seeing these cave beetles lined up, it's genuinely really cool