Australian Beetles
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The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, or the potato bug, is a major pest of potato crops. It is about 10 mm (3⁄8 in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra. Native to the Rocky Mountains, it spread rapidly in potato crops across America and then Europe from 1859 onwards.
This one was sitting in my garden with no potato field in miles around, so I left it alone...
Montenaken, Belgium
Everyone recognizes lady beetles, or ladybugs, and welcomes them into their gardens. Unfortunately, baby lady beetles look nothing like they do as adults. Instead of bright red shells and black dots, ladybug larvae resemble tiny black alligators and do not look like something you want crawling around your plants. Take a good look, because the last thing you want to do is kill these garden allies before they reach maturity.
If anyone knows the ID for this beetle please let me know!
(Edit: possibly Chrysanthia viridissima)
Taken in Portugal, last May.
I believe that this is a False Potato Beetle. I was out doing macro photography yesterday and when I came home this beauty was on my front door. It was like it was waiting for me. I moved it to my garden and got some photos before it disappeared. Photographed in Maryland..
This summer, I've been on the lookout for insects, especially ones that I've not seen before. With their large snouts, these weevils sure took the cake! I'm fairly certain that these are Poplar's Snout Weevils, but if you know otherwise, please let me know.
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A small beetle that I found under a log on 3/9/21. When it's this early in the year and we are just starting to have random intermittent warm days, my go to spots for finding insects are under rotten logs and under rocks. You tend to mostly find isopods, centipedes, and millipedes but it's still great to be out interacting with nature again after the dreary indoor winter months.
Another image of a Tansy Beetle, this time on a sunnier sunrise which produced some lovely bokeh in the background. This little Beetle posed perfectly!
This little guy was quite the acrobatic, using grass stems to travel between Tansy plants after a recent downpour. The rain had caused a lot of the grass to bend over in the weight of the water. I guess it was easier to travel via them rather than all the way to the ground and back up again.
Click beetle (Athous haemorrhoidalis) on a leaf.
Nieskorek rudobrzuchy (Athous haemorroidalis) ma liściu.