#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.]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Most insects can’t move very fast over due to their limited size and number of legs. The fastest runner is the Australian tiger beetle, which can reach a top speed of 9 km/hr (5.5 mph). This may not seem fast to us, but Cicindela hudsoni is only 2cm long, this means they’re travelling 120 body lengths per second. If a 6ft human were to travel at the same rate, they’d be going at 1160 km/h (720 mph)!

(Image: An Australian tiger beetle (Cicindela (Rivacindela) hudsoni) by Georg Stelzner)

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[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

[antiqueanimals]

The First Book of Bugs. Written and illustrated by Margaret Williamson. 1949.

Internet Archive

[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

[whilomm]

oh okay heres one:

"sleepaway camp"= you go there for at least a few days, a week, sometimes several weeks, and sleep there, as opposed to a """camp""" where you go for the day and your parents or whoever picks you up afterward (those arent really camps, but like. idk when i went to "space camp" it was a weeklong but not sleepaway). in the U.S. at least, the typical image of a sleepaway camp involves staying in cabins, dunno how common it is/what it looks like in other countries.

for the first few i just mean like. not necessarily a stealth church camp, just like. idk, a camp where theres also an Assumption Of Christianity and just general vibes without being actually church camp. So, there might not be daily services and jesusy dedicatwd activities, but maybe theres still a prayer said over meals and shit. Which i assume might exist...

(oh and @reblogforsamplesize if u wanna)