Finished grilling, finished fireworks, went to check the bug light and was rewarded with teneb species #50 for the year (Strongylium terminatum) and this cute Lucanus capreolus. #SuburbanBeetles #CatchAndRelease #Cute.

In case you didn't know, T. cinerea stridulates when you poke it. The Cupes did not. #BeetleBehavior #WeirdBeetles

ughh it was bound to happen sooner or later, but still sucks. #EAB

Oh thank God I was worried for a sec. At Powells.

The genus Agrilus is pushing 4,000 available species and sometimes folks get "creative" with names. In Australia there is Agrilus kangaroo, A. emu, A. numbat, A. bilby, A. moloch, A. echidna, and no they have not host-switched to vertebrates! #TooManyNames

A wicked storm exploded a couple trees in my parents' yard las week. I'm trying to convince them that this'll do wonders for our local Corticeus (and I guess some other bugs) population, but they insist on removing them :( #ParentsJustDontUnderstand

意外と登場しているウラギンシジミの漫画再掲！

Revisiting a paper that I shoulda finished like five years ago. This is a very good beetle. Chaetyllus tuberculatus (Kirsch, 1870) Bogotá Colombia. #TooManyBeetles

Hexodon is the coolest Dynastinae because it is doing its best to look like tenebrionids. #CoolerThanMegasoma

This click beetle from Madagascar (no further details) looked so normal from above. #sausages #wurst

Compilation of a few videos I shot of toktokkies back in 2018/19, courtesy of Gino Nearns. The last two species were recently described by @Coleo_livia and Marcin Jan Kaminski. #TOKTOK #BeetleButts youtu.be/QmKU48GkSIo

Saw a gopher tortoise today. Pretty chill.

Fourth species of lucanid from my backyard! Dorcus parallelus! I love my little forest oasis in the burbs. #CatchAndRelease #BackyardBugs

Another wonderful suburban safari bug. Megarhyssa. #BackyardBugs

Found this strange yellowjacket at a rest area near Decatur Illinois