Dendroides sp. fire-colored beetle larva (Pyrochroidae) Urbana, Illinois - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures

Beetles

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

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Beetles, like butterflies, undergo complete metamorposis. This photos depicts a larva and a pupa of the darkling beetle Tenebrio molitor (Tenebrionidae).

Dendroides sp. fire-colored beetle larva (Pyrochroidae)

Urbana, Illinois

Tenebrio molitor, pupa.

Ground beetles (Carabidae) in a museum collection.

Olibrus shining flower beetles (Phalacridae) in a thistle flower.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Olibrus shining flower beetles (Phalacridae)

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Olibrus shining flower beetles (Phalacridae) in a thistle flower.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Aethina tumida, the small hive beetle, showing the distinctive clubbed antennae that mark the family Nitidulidae.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Male (top) and female western hercules beetles (Dynastes granti) on their host plant, an ash tree.

Arizona, USA

Dendroides sp. fire-colored beetle larva (Pyrochroidae)

Urbana, Illinois

Dendroides sp. fire-colored beetle larva (Pyrochroidae)

Urbana, Illinois

Dendroides sp. fire-colored beetle larva (Pyrochroidae)

Urbana, Illinois

Canon EOS 50D |

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Current: 400x600 |

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Keywords: larva coleoptera metamorphosis holometabola dendroides

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