#Chauliognathus marginatus (Margined Leatherwing Beetle)

[thebelmontrooster]

A Little Catching Up Part 3...

A Little Catching Up Part 3…

Auricularia americana (Jelly Tree Ear) at 2:22 PM on 6-26-22, #896-9. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you all doing well. It has been hot this past week. It is 99° F as I am starting to write this post. There is rain in the forecast for next week so hopefully, the temps will cool off a bit. I had an interesting walk in the hayfield on June 26, just a couple of days before the hay was cut.…

[alcnfr]

What I believe are Margined Leatherwing Beetles (Chauliognathus marginatus) on a Southern Magnolia blossom (Magnolia grandiflora).

[horsebeast]

margined leatherwing beetle, Chauliognathus marginatus

[floridensis]

margined leatherwing plunging its face into a lilac tasselflower

[fatchance]

Margined leatherwing beetles (Chauliognathus marginatus), at the Norfolk Botanical Garden, Norfolk, Virginia. 

[zoology-time]

Margined Leatherwing Beetle, Chauliognathus marginatus

[jmg-photography]

Margined Leatherwing Soldier Beetle (Chauliognathus marginatus)

[celestialmacros]

Margined Leatherwing (Chauliognathus marginatus)

June 3, 2017

Stroud Preserve, West Chester, Pennsylvania

I seem to be on a bit of a beetle streak.

I wanted this to be the similar Goldenrod Leatherwing (Chauliognathus pensylvanicus) because it is on goldenrod and it would have been my second pennsylvanicus post in a row, but no luck.

[stampsshow]

I LOVE these! You have to know that I love insects and arthropods in general, and these stamps show such a huge variety of lovely insects. Well done, Canada Post! <3

Prepare for some scientific names: Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus), monarch butterfly (both as a caterpillar and as an adult, Danaus plexippus), convergent lady beetle (Hippodamia convergens), cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia), large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus), Canada darner (Aeshna canadensis), Pale Green Assassin Bug (Zelus luridus),  dogbane beetle (Chrysochus auratus), Arctic bumblebee (Bombus polaris),  margined leatherwing (Chauliognathus marginatus), golden paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus), golden-eyed lacewing (Chrysopa oculata).

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[jfbugs]

Margined Leatherwing Beetle

Chauliognathus  marginatus

Month: August

[horsebeast]

Margined leatherwing beetle, Chauliognathus marginatus

[horsebeast]

margined leatherwing beetle, Chauliognathus marginatus

[floridensis]

margined leatherwing caught in a spiderweb

[fatchance]

Yellow crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis) with mating pairs of margined leatherwing beetles (Chauliognathus marginatus). Yorktown, Virginia.