Oliver Keller

"Ellychnia" now Photinus corruscus is down there, but this is indeed Pyractomena borealis

📍✨Don't forget to sign up for THE PIN DOWN - Insect Mounting Challenge at the annual @entsocamerica meeting in Portland📍✨
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On Nov. 11 at 3:00PM in the OCC Exhibit hall, you will have 30 minutes to mount 10 arthropods. Winners determined based on the mounting method and aesthetics.

That streak is only about 1-1.5 seconds long. The species that makes it is Photinus pyralis and it looks like a J kind of

This is not Photinus pyralis. The black on the pronotum is more like a spot on the pronotum in P. pyralis. This could be a couple other species like P. consimilis or P. obscurellus.

There are fireflies in every state of the US but Hawaii. West of the Rocky Mountains they just don't glow/flash as adults.

Female Photinus firefly. Judging from the pronotum Photinus pyralis

Yes, that's Lucidota atra. Great daytime firefly

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Do an update as a website of the checklist like the fireflies have now

We are #hiring a Biodiversity Researcher in Quito, Ecuador. Be part of an exciting project cooperating with us, The Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE), the Zoological Museum (QCAZ) and the Center for Research on Health in Latin America (CISeAL).

More: cisealpuce.edu.ec/en/about_us/...

Their signature cocktail does sound delicious

Kinda had to... #Firefly restaurant in #TraverseCity, MI.

Image of jagged ambush bug on goldenrod

These jagged ambush bugs (Phymata sp.; #Hemiptera: #Reduviidae) are amazing hunters and their camouflage game is usually on point. They can catch some pretty big prey with those raptorial forelegs.

Image of green leafhopper

Close-up of leafhopper scutellum which markings resemble the face of Dracula

One of my favorite #insects. Draeculacephala inscripta the water lettuce leafhopper. Look at that amazing #Dracula face on the scutellum. You can't unsee it when you spot it. #horror #hemiptera #insectwonders The genus name translates to Dracula head

Image of the Camphor shoot borer Cnestus mutilatus

The Camphor Shoot Borer (𝘊𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴, #Coleoptera: #Curculionidae: #Scotylinae) is an adventive bark #beetle found in sweetgum and a few other hardwoods. But it is also found in plastic fuel storage containers: t.co/UpVMgx2lJs #AmazingBeetles #Beetles #Macrophotography #Macro

Orange and Black firefly from Puerto Rico sitting on leaf

Rufolychnia borencona, a #firefly endemic to Puerto Rico. One of the prettiest fireflies I have encountered so far.

#AmazingBeetles #Lampyridae #WestIndies #FireflyMagic

As far as I know the real purpose is unknown. Males sometimes use it to wipe the females, but why is unclear.

A beetle with spectacular antennae at a blacklight sheet

Just a Dendroides concolor. That's all!

#Pyrochroidae #AmazingBeetles #FireColoredBeetles

Two leaf beetles mating on blacklight sheet

More Chrysomela scripta to be made. Blacklight sheet love affair.

#Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #AmazingBeetles #Sexonsixlegs

Yes. They all think we can't pronounce squirrel, yet none of them can say Eichhörnchen

Squirrel trying to get peanuts from a bird feeder

That little face of guilt just before taking the feeder down. #Squirrel. Oh wait I am not supposed to know how to say that as a German

Image of pink and black short-snouted weevil

Hawthorne Trail find: Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi (#Coleoptera: #Curculionidae) one of the Sesbania clown #weevils. #AmazingBeetles #Florida #clownweevil #Gainesville

Frontal view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax

Side view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head, thorax, and abdomen

Top view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax,

Feast your eyes on Sparmannia flava. Maybe the greatest melolonthine of them all. That "winter" coat though...

#AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Africa #Scarabaeidae #Winteriscoming

Pinned acorn weevil with long proboscis

Pinned weevil with shorter proboscis

Is snoot envy a thing in weevils??? #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

Large weevil with setose (=hairy) snoot

Large weevil with setose (=hairy) snoot

Close-up of setose (=hairy) snoot

#CollectionCuriosities Rhinostomus barbirostris, the bearded #weevil, is maybe my favorite weevil and look at that bottle brush snoot #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

Tiny rainbow colored beetle on pin

Tiny rainbow colored beetle on pin

When your morphology tries to make you look like bird poop, but you dress like a rock star.

#Chlamisus #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #FSCA #AmazingBeetles #Bolivia

Longhorn beetle with fancy antennae

Cosmisoma plumicorne #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae. When one brush isn't enough you upgrade.

Pinned longhorn beetle and their fancy antennae

Unxia gracilior #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae. Longhorns and their original bottle brush.

Enlarged dung beetle figure trying to roll a garbage can.

Enlarged dung beetle figure trying to roll a garbage can.

I really want a garbage can like this one at the @TaipeiZoo #insectarium. It would fit right in with the rest of the decor #Coleoptera #Taiwan #Taipei

Our Lampyris sardiniae colony celebrates 20 years in 2024, and slowly approaching generation 27! 🎄 Best early Christmas gift ever - just received the original founder pair and F1 generation specimens preserved in alcohol from 20 years ago! 🧬✨