Nice find here from Rambling Ray 👏

If you spot a Caterpillar hunter (Dendroxena quadrimaculata), be sure to share your sighting via iRecord for us!

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you here… we have nominated the best beetles. 😉

Get involved with the The Guardian’s UK invertebrate species of the year
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This #MothersDay , we want to give a shout out to all the incredible Burying beetle mums out there, working hard to protect and rear their offspring.

From preparing the carcass, to regurgitating pre-digested flesh to the larvae - they are exceptional parents! ☺️

📷 Tom Ratz

Join us Wednesday 6 March, 2024 to hear Professor Rebecca Kilner Rebecca Kilner give the #Verrall Lecture. Free to attend event.

Please note the venue has changed from Natural History Museum to @ImperialCollege.

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#Verrall Lecture #Entomology

Forget #BlueMonday & let’s make today all about the beauty of INSECTS! Help me spread some joy & your snaps of #BlueBugs 🦋

I’m re-sharing my ultimate favourite this year: A #CarrionBeetle from South-east Asia, Necrophila formosa… 💙 [1/3]

Digging back through the Into The Wild Archive today & this week, it's time to reshare this wonderful episode with entomologist Ashleigh Whiffin where we, of course, are discussing the world of beetles!

Full Episode:intothewild.podbean.com/e/beetles-with…

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Looking for a job as a #buryingbeetle #technician ? Are you skilled in insect rearing and husbandry, highly organised and enthusiastic about inverts? If so, please apply for this post with Ben Raymond and myself University of Exeter CEC: tinyurl.com/55jbuvyj. Exeter Uni Jobs. Pls retweet.

All aboard the Beetle Bus with ⁦Ashleigh Whiffin⁩! 💀🎧

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Red breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracicum) Mauldsheugh Wood Community Wildlife Project this afternoon. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. Silphidae Recording Scheme Ashleigh Whiffin BuglifeScotland

Fantastic footage here of a young Grassland #CarrionBeetle (Silpha tristis)! This scavenger species is known to feed on vertebrate carrion, molluscs & dead invertebrates.

Always a pleasure going through records for Longhorn RS on iRecord. Many thanks for those that submit the records, and allow the time it takes volunteers like myself running national schemes such as Silphidae Recording Scheme Soldierflies RS Ground Beetle Recording Scheme (and all the others)

Nicrophorous vespilloides on a dead swallow chick Ashleigh Whiffin Silphidae Recording Scheme

Logged it on iRecord. 🪲📲

Lisa Williams RSPB Coombes Valley and Consall Woods Silphidae Recording Scheme Ashleigh Whiffin Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland The Coleopterists Society NHM Coleoptera StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 StaffsInvertGroup Here’s one I found in Lathkill Dale, Derbyshire on 27/5/23 - glittering in the sunshine.

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We’ve had a good number of observations of Dendroxena quadrimaculata (AKA the Caterpillar Hunter) submitted this year! Keep those records coming!

Oiceoptoma thoracicum I believe seen RSPB Coombes Valley and Consall Woods 01/06/23 Silphidae Recording Scheme Ashleigh Whiffin Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland The Coleopterists Society NHM Coleoptera StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 StaffsInvertGroup #beetle #Silphidae #Coleoptera

Black Sextion beetle (Nicrophorus humator) with a cargo of Phoretic mites. In the garden moth trap this morning. #CarrionBeetles #Silphidae Ashleigh Whiffin Silphidae Recording Scheme