"Coleoptera" means "Sheath-wing".
The forewings of beetles form a hard protective sheath called the elytra. Underneath their are folded membranous wings used for flight.
"Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home,
Your house is on fire, Your children shall burn!"
The forewings of beetles form a hard protective sheath called the elytra. Underneath their are folded membranous wings used for flight.
"Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home,
Your house is on fire, Your children shall burn!"
Family Carabidae - Ground Beetles
Galleries 16
76 photos
Family Scarabaeidae - Scarab Beetles
Galleries 11
84 photos
Family Coccinellidae - Lady Beetles
Galleries 13
173 photos
Family Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles
Galleries 12
81 photos
Family Cerambycidae - Longhorned Beetles
Galleries 8
39 photos
Family Tenebrionidae - Darkling Beetles
Galleries 15
64 photos
Family Elateridae - Click Beetles
Galleries 12
32 photos
Family Curculionidae - Snout and Bark Beetles
Galleries 10
27 photos
Antlike flower beetle - Vacusus nigritulus
3 photos
Ant-like flower beetle - Stereopalpus sp.
3 photos
Rove beetle - Unidentified spp.
4 photos
Rove beetle 2 - Unidentified sp.
1 photos
Rove beetle - Philonthus sp.
1 photos
Rove beetle - Tachyporus sp
1 photos
Black burying beetle - Nicrophorus nigrita
8 photos
Powderpost Bostrichid - Amphicerus cornutus
7 photos
Stout's Hardwood Borer - Polycaon stoutii
1 photos
Auger beetle - Xylobiops sp.
1 photos
Fungus beetle - Aphorista morosa
2 photos
Metallic wood-boring beetle - Agrilus quadriguttatus niveiventris
2 photos
Yellow-marked Buprestid - Acmaeodera hepburnii
1 photos
Buprestid - Acmaeodera sp
1 photos
Checkered beetle - Enoclerus quadrisignatus
3 photos
Checkered beetle - Cymatodera (pubescens?)
2 photos
Soft-winged flower beetle - Attalus trimaculatus
3 photos
Soft-winged flower beetle - Unidentified spp.
3 photos
Tumbling flower beetle - Unidentified sp.
4 photos
Ironclad beetle - Phloeodes diabolicus
6 photos
Western Banded Glowworm - Zarhipis integripennis
3 photos
Glowworm - Pterotus obscuripennis
4 photos
California Pink Glowworm - Microphotus angustus
7 photos
Soldier beetle - Cultellunguis ingenuus
4 photos
Soldier beetle - Podabrus sp.
2 photos
Brown Leatherwing Beetle - Pacificanthia consors
14 photos
Red-eared blister beetle - Lytta auriculata
1 photos
Blister beetle - Zonitis bilineata
2 photos
False blister beetle - Nacerdes sp.
2 photos
False blister beetle - Copidita quadrimaculata
1 photos
Minute brown scavenger beetle - Unidentified sp.
2 photos
Wedge-shaped beetle - Ripiphorus sp.
2 photos
Carpet beetle - Anthrenus verbasci
20 photos
Hide Beetle - Dermestes maculatus
8 photos
Spider beetle - Ptinus (interruptus?)
2 photos
Predaceous diving beetle - unidentifed sp
2 photos
Water scavenger beetle - Berosus sp.
1 photos
Whirligig beetle - Gyrinus sp.
1 photos
Variegated Mud-loving Beetle - undentified spp.
5 photos
Beetle - Family Ptinidae
1 photos
Woodborer - Ozognathus cornutus
2 photos
Pleasing fungus beetle - Dacne sp.
1 photos
Small false click beetle - Trixagus sp.
1 photos
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