#leaf beetles

my main source of praise for Timarcha lusitanica, a bumbling chrysomelid that i encounter fairly often throughout the year, are its legs and their colorful metallic sheen under the right lighting. this is not the right lighting and this post is not about them. this post is about its shoes

hello my dears... a quick post today... it seems bugblr likes colourful beetles so heres a smol pretty leaf beetle from (Heteraspis sp.) i saw it beside a road

on flower bud... common species of leaf beetle with colours that pop out when shot

small. shiny. colourful. goofy looking face. nice punctation too

This october, be sure to leave out some extra pumpkins for the pumpkin beetle! The species in this genus love to feed on squash, including pumpkins; females lay clutches of eggs underneath the leaves, and the young nymphs get easy access to an all-they-can-eat pumpkin buffet! As adults, they even look like their favorite food, although their orange color is actually a warning to predators that they might get a face full of stink if they get too close!

Rosemary beetle - well aware they're not native species but neither is the rosemary they're living on. I might eventually swap that for a more fitting option but i think i'll miss my beetle neighbours when i do. They enjoy playing dead but trust me this pal was alive and well (and very hard to get off my finger again, you'd think they'd prefer the rosemary over my useless flesh).

Do you guys like beetles?

[ID: photos of various beetles drawn with traditional tools such as watercolors, markers, wooden colors and acrylic paint, all drawn from above. From left to right, a leaf beetle (Acromis sparsa), a sunburst diving beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus), a pinacate (Eleodes armata), a longhorn beetle (Sternotomis bohemani), a female trilobite beetle (Platerodrilus paradoxus) and a pigweed flea beetle (Disonycha glabrata). The last photo features the first five drawings in the hand of the artist. End ID.]

I made these for a bookmark that was a secondary gift for my secret santa from work. The guy likes bugs but mainly beetles. I figured I'd add the quote from The first book of bugs by Margaret Williamson (1949) that says that there are many more beetles, each one with something very special to it, since i just couldn't draw many of them, but in the end there was no space for it, so i just arranged the bugs together to fit in a rectangle. He loved it! Also I read the whole book and loved it, so i linked it if anyone wants to check it out :>