Beetles

American Carrion Beetle on Short Tailed Shrew. See dwlvideo.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/life-on-a-dead-shrew/ for longer video and other formats.

Cicindela sexguttata female ovipositing into moist soil caught between the roots of a fallen tree. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA. Here's a videos with a lateral view. Here's a picture of the oviposition site.

Cicindela sexguttata female ovipositing into moist soil caught between the roots of a fallen tree. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA. Here's a video with a dorsal view. Here's a picture of the oviposition site.

Coenopoeus palmeri. Molino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA. 13 September 2008.

Cucumber Beetle on thistle bloom. More video at dwlvideo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/cucumber-beetle-skipper/

Cucumber Beetle on thistle bloom. More video at dwlvideo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/cucumber-beetle-skipper/

An altercation between a longhorn beetle, Tragidion densiventre, and a paper wasp, Polistes comanchus, on a desert broom bush. Molino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA. 20 October 2007.

Gibbifer californicus, Mount Bigelow, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA. Larvae and adult feeding on red-belted conk along the Butterfly Peak trail, 12 August 2007.Doesn't this look like a scene from an alien planet?

Gibbifer californicus. Mount Bigelow, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA. 8 September 2007.

maybe the dinosaurs evolved into insects

Green fruit beetles (Cotinis mutabilis) scrambling for access to the sap of an injured Mexican Palo Verde tree (Parkinsonia aculeata). Himmel Park, Tucson, Arizona, USA. 14 August 2007.

We found this weevil crawling on the ground near a decomposing fallen tree. Chris had his new Galaxy S2 phone with him and thought he'd have a go at using the video function. This is the result. (I've edited out the sound, in case anyone is wondering.)You can see more of our photos of this interesting critter here: www.rymich.com/girraween/index.php?section=animals&su...

Chauliognathus obscurus. Molino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA. 18 September 2012.

Odontotaenius disjunctus, on a log, under bark. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA. Note that these larvae only have four functional legs. The third pair of legs is reduced: entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/beetles/horned_passalus...

Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) at Plava Biosphere Reserve near Mikulov, Czech Republic. Photographed on 25 July 2005.

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The first movie in the 100 club.

Photinus pyralis. Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC, USA.

Rhynchophorus ferrugineus walking on the fallen leaf of its victim, a canary date palm (Phoenix canariensis). Els Poblets, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. 6 January 2011.

Cucujus clavipes. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA.

Acmaeodera rubronotata. Molino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA. 27 October 2007.

Ischnocodia annulus. Along Pipeline Road, Soberania National Park, Panama. 23 January 2012.

Chrysolilna bankii eating Plantago major. Els Poblets, Alicante, Spain.