Beetle Mania
There are at least 400,000 species of beetles (Order Coleoptera)! It is the largest of all orders and constitutes nearly 40% of ALL described insects, and 25% of all known animal life-forms! This list is devoted to that mindblowing diversity!
Christine Young created this list 7 years ago
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Cocklebur Weevil - Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus -
Florida Calligrapher Beetle (Calligrapha floridana) -
Phenolia grossa -
Twelve-Spotted Gourd Ladybird on zucchini blossom -
Pachytodes cerambyciformis -
Common cockchafer, ready to take off. -
Amphasia sericea -
Liophloeus tessulatus. (weevil) -
Lebia solea -
Lebia ornata -
Cionus hortulanus (Geoffroy,1785) -
Stenolophus lineola -
Oedemera_femorata -
Trichius fasciatus -
Common reed beetle -
Simo hirticornis (Herbst,1795) -
Malachius bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) -
Tetrops praeustus -
Otiorhynchus (Metopiorrhynchus) singularis (Linnaeus, 1767) -
red-striped oil beetle. -
Cidnopus aeruginosus, Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands -
Firefly? Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands -
Uleiota planatus (Linnaeus, 1760) -
Eastern Babia (Babia quadriguttata)