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Deliberately didn’t take my big camera to the campground so I don’t go off alone for hours on end hunting beetles. Almost immediately found an extremely photogenic beetle I’ve never seen before.

But I’m still pleased with the decision: Mr 10 was very enthusiastic to help me out with the phone photos.

Large black beetle with interesting lumpy texture on its elytra

Child (face crudely covered with an emoji) in swimwear and towel, standing on a beach, holding up a large black beetle on the back of his hand.

@jencmars I didn’t know them, but I’m an instant fan!

@nev I am extremely surprised! Also the photos of larvae carrying their egg case houses around are delightful. I will check back regularly just in case I get to enjoy that too.

Not Neuroptera! Apparently leaf beetles, tribe Clytrini. https://ecoevo.social/@rspfau/114735521866153130

@rspfau oh WOW thank you! That’s awesome! @LeamValley@universeodon.com

Tikitu boosted:

@LeamValley @tikitu

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/beetle-art/

A quartet of shots. Unidentified beetle, unidentified beetle larva that iNaturalist auto-suggest thinks may be Ablattaria, a medium-small longhorn beetle, and a closeup of a rose chafer to show off its incredible colours. #insects #beetles #MacroPhotography

I don’t know what this is but the colour is just fabulous. #beetles #MacroPhotography

Behold, the sinister snakefly! (On our mosquito screen.) #insects #MacroPhotography #NotActuallyNeuroptera

Snakefly on an out of focus grid pattern

Behold, the slightly derpy owlfly! #insects #MacroPhotography #Neuroptera

Yellow and black owlfly resting with wings half-open on a stalk

Behold, the majestic antlion! #insects #MacroPhotography #Neuroptera

Antlion with wings folded resting on a leaf

Here’s the detail shot of those odd little structures. I still think eggs, perhaps Neuroptera? If you have any ideas please help out at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292167289

Tiny blobby structures, perhaps insect eggs, on delicate white stalks rising above a leaf.

@nev we get lacewings, antlions & owlflies here, it could well be. I didn’t see any sign of any other slime mold structures, but I know very little about them. Better photo coming up with an iNat observation.

@nev similar size to ladybird eggs, a little fatter and shorter.

Whose eggs are these?! #MacroPhotography

Back of camera shot of insect eggs on stalks, with complex blobby ridge structures on them

@lemondisco They’re a wonderful shape. And their movement is great too, that neck sways forward and then they follow it with a sinuous snakey movement. I think of them as tiny dragons.

Snakefly! Found on the inside of a window, released back into the back garden.

(Northern Greece)

Back of camera shot of Snakefly on my palm.

And here is the slightly larger of my two #weevils for #WeevilWednesday

#insects #beetles #MacroPhotography

Weevil extreme,t close up to show the delicate hairs in complicated patterns

It’s #WeevilWednesday (actually on Wednesday for a change). #beetles #weevils #insects This is actually the lesser of my two weevils for today, no kidding.

Short-nosed weevil in close up, from the side

@pkviatko “all the better for looking at you my dear” Didn’t occur to me but I suppose they do

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