Invertebrate / Coleoptera / Beetles

Screech beetle Hygrobia tarda dorsal view, floating in the water with a sprig on water weed behind

Ladybird larvae Coccinella showing yellow and black colour and distintive shape of this active grub

Ground beetle Carabidae type cut to whtie

Hercules beetle Dynastes hercules in side view, facing left, showing enormous horn

Cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis adult and larva and pupa, the latter two inside developing cotton bolls

Harlequin beetle Acrocinus longimanus cut to white showing distinctive orange and cohre pattern, elongated fore legs, and long antennae

Dung beetle Geotrupes stercorarius view from above dosal view

Dorcadion scopoli Longhorn beetle cut to white

Aristobia approximator beetle

Colorado Potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata life cycle with adult, egg, pupa, and colourful orange grub all cut to whtie

Spruce Bark beetle Ips typographus inset illustration against a background showing maternal and larval galleries in bark

Tropical beetle ventral view showing large hind legs and metallic red and green colouration

Buprestid metallic wood boring beetle cut to whtie showing its extraordinary rainbow colouration