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Day running on surface of soil

Came to lights

Feather-horned beetle Rhipicera femorata, Hamish Saunders Trust survey of Clarke Island, Banks Strait, Tasmania, December 2014

About 2.5cm body length.

Jewel-beetle Castiarina flavopicta, behind Safety Cove, Tasmania, December 2016

cf. Metamasius sp., Cactophagus sp. ?

With thanks to Pierre Richard for the ID - biggest crane fly I've ever seen!

Found in Kenyain the Tsavo ecosystem. Around the length of a nickel.

I think these 2 photos are of the same sort of beetle. One might have been dead, but can't remember which! They were on the flat land near the Kunene River.

originally on Red Maple (Acer rubrum); flew to road-sign angle-iron.

USA/CA/San Bernardino Co..
Silverwood lake area
Hwy 138 nr E end Burnt Mill Rd
34.265914oN 117.290726oW
Elev. ~1215 m, 11 v 2017
Under bark on old pine stump
S. McElfresh

FOY (First Of Year)- six seen

LLELA Bioblitz, IV-1-2017, Lewisville, TX, Denton Co. USA. Coll. M.Merchant.

Chrysolina americana. Els Poblets, Communidad Valenciana,

Stenosphenus dolosus
Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center
Langtry
Val Verde County, TX
12 October, 2016

walking in dry sand just above high tide line on inland side of coastal sand dune.

Gerole