Beetles

Green Tiger Beetle mating on a path. Limousin, France.

Capricorn Beetle resting on a nettle leaf in my garden.

Asian lady beetles mating on a mulberry leaf in my garden.

Checkered beetle cleaning its paws in the heart of a buttercup.

Bee Beetle resting on a flower of oxeye daisy in my garden.

Two-banded Longhorn Beetle, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae, interested in the hawthorn flowers in the hedge that surrounds our orchard.

Two-banded Longhorn Beetle, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae, interested in the hawthorn flowers in the hedge that surrounds our orchard.

Two-banded Longhorn Beetle, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae, interested in the hawthorn flowers in the hedge that surrounds our orchard.

Red-headed cardinal beetle resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

A Click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

A Click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

A carrion beetle posed on the greenhouse in my garden.

A flea beetle, little and jumping beetle of Chrysomelidae family on a mullein leaf in my garden.

Red-headed cardinal beetle resting on a fence in my garden.

Asian Lady Beetle inspecting a nettle leaf in my garden.

Checkered beetles mating on rhubarb flowers in my garden.

Checkered beetles mating on rhubarb flowers in my garden.

Checkered beetles mating on rhubarb flowers in my garden.

Morimus asper male, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae found in my garden.

Morimus asper male, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae found in my garden.

Morimus asper male, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae found in my garden.

Morimus asper male, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae found in my garden.

Morimus asper male, a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae found in my garden.

Red-headed cardinal beetle resting on a blade of grass in my garden.

Red-headed cardinal beetle resting on a blade of grass in my garden.

Red-headed cardinal beetle resting on a blade of grass in my garden.

Red-headed cardinal beetle resting on a blade of grass in my garden.

A blister beetle tasting a scabious flower in an altitude meadow in the Pyrénées Orientales.

Violet oil beetle male traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way.

Speckled Rose Chafer eating Apiaceae flowers around Digne-les-Bains

Blue Ground Beetle hidden under the bark of a dead tree trunk in a wet meadow.

Blue Ground Beetle on a dead trunk in a wet meadow.

Blue Ground Beetle caught a few moments in the palm of my hands in a wet meadow.

Checkered beetles tasting a Grey-leaved Cistus flower.

Blister beetle resting on a yarrow on the side of a road.

The male of this small beetle has very large and strange antennae. The female lays her eggs on a plant foraged by square-headed wasps which use prey (Ortoptera or Mantis) to feed their larvae. The tiny Cerocoma larva climbs on a feeding wasp. If it is a female of the right species, it will lead them directly to the nest. He will drop into a cell, kill the wasp larva and take advantage of the food at his disposal to go out as an adult in the spring.

A Blister Beetle eating a Asteraceae flower in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Leaf Beetle resting on a shrub. Catalan Pyrenees, France.
The adult lives in trees while the larvae confused with plants by ants are introduced by it in the anthill. The larvae then produce a scabbard with waste and excrement and feed on debris and brood. After the last molt, they discreetly out of the nest to fly to the trees.

Checkered beetle resting on an oxeye daisy in a wet meadow.

Blister beetle tasting an asteraceae at the edge of a road in the Pyrenees. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Blister beetle tasting an asteraceae at the edge of a road in the Pyrenees. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Mating of Spotted Longhorn beetles on meadowsweet in a wet meadow.

Mating of Spotted Longhorn beetles on meadowsweet in a wet meadow.

Mating of net-winged beetles on apple mint in a wet meadow. The adults are nectarivores and larvae are predators of insects living in decaying wood.

Bee Beetle resting on a purple coneflower with a buff-tailed bumblebee in my garden.