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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Elongate Flea Beetle (Systena elongata) -
Labidomera clivicollis -
Cordyceps curculionum - closeup, La Planada Nature Reserve, Colombia -
Aspicela scutata, La Planada Nature Reserve, Colombia -
Paropsis pantherina -
Anatis labiculata -
Winter Firefly - Ellychnia corrusca -
Small Snail-eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus -
Pachnoda Beetles -
Dicerca tenebrica -
Plague Soldier beetle -
Striped Cucumber Beetle - Acalymma vittatum -
Monochamus scutellatus -
Velvety Bark Beetle (Penthe pimelia) -
Handsome Fungus Beetle (Endomychus biguttatus) on Split-gill Fungus (Schizophyllum commune) -
Saperda obliqua -
Saperda calcarata -
Saperda cretata -
weevil -
Weevil (Lixus angustatus) -
Fourteen-spot Ladybird (Propylea quatuordecimpunctata) with Aphids -
Tropisternus lateralis -
Case bearing leaf beetle (Cadmus aurantiacus) -
Anthocomus equestris