#pine chafer

Pine Chafer (Polyphylla fullo)

Every summer, these get out of the soil like a hoard of ghouls, fully transformed into their beetle form, from previously grubby one.

All of the individuals here are males, and can be easily identified by their giant antenna structures. They use those to find the females, who have slightly thicker legs. Otherwise both appear the same.

[Photo taken: 17th June 2024]

Content warning! Grub (larvae) photo below the cut. (Likely dead.)

@narwa submitted: hello here is a Huge pine chafer i found in northern poland. ive never held a beetle this large before

This one is of a godwit surrounded by Lunaria annua, better known as annual honesty.

This was my first oil painting EVER, and I am so happy with how it turned out, it is defintely one of my favourites !

This one is of a STURGEON ! I LOVE LOVE LOVE STURGEONS ! The text is from newspaper article from the 50s or something. The newspaper is called 'Great Falls' , the article is about a huge sturgeon being caught in the Flathead Lake.

This painting was an experiment for me, I had never painted fish before, so this was my first try.

This is a started, but not finished painting of a pretty generic beetle, I might make it a Polyphylla fullo, or pine chafer.

This one if of two butterflies, I forgot which species, on some thistles. Not much of a story behind this one, I just really wanted to paint something and I grabbed a picture from my calender (which had a picture for each day of the year).

This one is a painting of a tree (you can imagine it as the tree of life, or Yggdrasil or whatever you please) which I saw in my dreams. It actually started out as an acryl painting, but I never could make any painting work with acryl, so I went over it with oil. It is still a work in progress.

This is a landscape painting from an archeological site in Turkey, it is not finished yet. I might just use the colours already visible on the canvas, or I might add a splash of bright red, because the site was surrounded by the most gorgeous poppy fields.

I painted a plant pot today! It was awesome!

The beetles were based on pine chafers a.k.a. Polyohylla fullo, but because of the colours and the vertical stripes on the wings they don't really look like them.

Below a photograph of a pine chafer I made some time ago:)

Pine Chafer / julikever (Polyphylla fullo) | ©BJSmit

The Pine Chafer, Polyphylla fullo (Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae) is the largest of the European Melolonthinae, attaining a length of 38 mm.

The body is robust and convex and more or less reddish brown or blackish. It is covered with fine white pubescence which forms marbled spots. Like other members of the genus, males possess an enlarged antennal “fan”, which gives a distinctive appearance to these beetles.