A gregarious cluster of Paropsisterna eucalyptus leaf beetles. These insects are chemically defended and are apparently more successful in advertising that fact in numbers. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Beetles

are older than the dinosaurs and contain more described species than any other order of insects.

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Omoglymmius wrinkled bark beetle.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

A dense mating aggregation of plague soldier beetles, Chauliognathus lugubris, in the Australian alps.

Mt. Hotham, Victoria, Australia

A mating aggregation of plague soldier beetles, Chauliognathus lugubris, in the Australian alps.

Mt. Hotham, Victoria, Australia

Chauliognathus lugubris (Cantharidae) - a plague soldier beetle.

Mt. Hotham, Victoria, Australia

Prosopocoilus sp. (Lucanidae)

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Male brentid weevils are often considerably larger, with a disproportionately longer snout, than females. This is a mating pair.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

A male straight-snouted weevil (Brentidae) silhouetted against a leaf in an Australian rain forest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

When disturbed, Paropsisterna eucalyptus leaf beetle larvae evert abdominal glands that release poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

A gregarious cluster of Paropsisterna eucalyptus leaf beetles. These insects are chemically defended and are apparently more successful in advertising that fact in numbers.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

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Keywords: larvae coleoptera chrysomelidae herbivory eucalyptus leaf beetles gregarious feeding

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