Grooves etched into a tree by the larger European elm bark beetle. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects. 1882.

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Beetle feeding galleries on a wych elm

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Animal of the Day!

Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)

(Photo by Tom Murray)

Conservation Status- Unlisted

Habitat- Northern North America

Size (Weight/Length)- 10 mm

Diet- Insects; Larvae

Cool Facts- People generally have a stigma against bark beetles because they’re known to kill trees through blue stain fungus. May I introduce the red flat bark beetle, a beetle that eats the larvae of other bark beetles and protects their home tree. They make a small initial hole to crawl underneath the tree’s bark where they then hunt anything that fits in their mouth. Due to living in polar areas, red flat bark beetles have learned how to survive freezing temperatures to the extreme. They lose up to 40% of the water in their cells to prevent themselves from freezing solid. Instead, they are able to continue eating the other hibernating insects in their tree as snow continues to fall. 

Rating- 12/10 (Flat as a pancake.)

Grooves etched into a tree by the larger European elm bark beetle. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects. 1882.

Internet Archive

Nemfrog.

Hogan Mountain

Mariposa County, California

June 2022

crayon rubbings of bark beetle larvae tracks

(activity hosted by the harvard museum of natural history)

some glamor shots of the weird flat bristles on this Cnesinus strigicollis bark beetle's dumb little face. absurd creature. absolutely obsessed with it immediately

look what bark beetles can do ???

Beetle Gallery This gallery has been carved into the tree’s phloem, or inner bark, by a bark beetle. Some species of beetles carve a specific pattern, while others carve random grooves. The galleries are often beautiful but beetle attacks are deadly.

Bug art

Bark beetle ?lettering?

A Friendly Reminder: Elm Tree Pruning Ban protects the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas

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Sneefsnorf

(Salpingus viridiaeneus, probably)

Oh yeah @lea-andres sorry for the @ but here’s the Bugbear art I forgot to post!

Tiny girlboss girlfriend and large wanted criminal boyfriend malewife

Happy birthday @lea-andres!