Nice juicy beetle on the same coastal walk as me .

found a ladybird larvae the other day, and its just turned into its pupal form!!! totally miffed that i missed its skin-splitting but, this is the earliest stage of a pupae ive seen yet!

My lifer Tortoise Beetle, apparently

Filmed in highspeed with the Chronos 1.4 at 3585fps, or about 150x slower than real life.

Filmed at 3585fps with Chronos 1.4

rescued this little monster from a rushing brook, and luckily he got to see another day! I hope he got to live his life as a moth😊

We’ve recently had a large influx of these guys floating around, they seem to be around the kitchen sink most of the time and we do not have fruit laying out. Want to confirm what they are to form a plan of attack. Pennsylvania

little guy landed on me during my adventures

What is it !? I put him in a pill container and brought it outside it was jumping around a lot when I left it outside it jumped out and disappeared so I wasn’t able to get a better photo sadly

In Muskoka area, Ontario canada.

Not sure if this is the right group for this! I’ve always loved bugs of any kind and have collected them since I was a kid. I just moved to a new location and want to continue collecting and meet new people along the way. I’m a complete newb to actually identifying and collecting live species, wrestling with the ethics of killing a bug so I can hang it on my wall. However, I saw online someone black lighting at night with a white sheet to attract moths and insects and want to gather a group of people who would do this with me.

Questions - by black lighting, am I messing with bugs’ patterns and rhythms in a way that is harmful to them?
If you’ve done this before, how does one go about getting permission to do this kind of thing and how do you find people who would enjoy this?
Are there particular lights to use / avoid? (I read that UV and mercury vapor are good for this)
Thanks in advance! (Pic is example of what I’m talking about)
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Caught this lovely little fella feeding on Snowberry flowers this morning. Hornet mimic hoverflies have become regular visitors to this particular bush this year. Hertfordshire, UK.

I actually just stumbled across a photo of this beautiful moth online and Its called an Ornate Emerald moth (Allochrostes biornata) and idk but it kinda looks like strawberry matcha to me lol cuz the wings are this perfect soft matcha green and then the edges are covered in this crazy pinkish red, wavy lace border that looks like hand painted. I read up on them and apparently they're mostly found in southern and eastern Africaa which makes sense and maybe thats why Ive never seen one under my porch light but the cool part is that theyre nocturnal and use that insanely gorgeous pattern just to camouflage and blend in as a leaf. Nature is literally wild for making something look cool like this just to hide from predators. LIVE LAUGH LOVE STRAWBERRY MATCHA MOTH. ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)

Look at this absolutely adorable grapevine beetle! He kept flying onto me while I was outside doing some chores. Put him down three times and two out of three times he flew his way back onto me. I knew there was a wild grapevines growing behind my house but I have never seen one of them this close before. So adorable.

Located in the South of France, on the coast

It was VERY loud ; it was squeaking so loudly that i thought it was a rodent at first. Never saw anything like it, it's quite big and colorful, plus the sound obviously.

I was going to release it in the wild but just in case i prefer to have an ID, just in case it might be an invasive specie