#leaf beetle

[critter-creature-or-beast]

The golden tortoise beetle is officially a critter!

By Ilona Loser - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

[onenicebugperday]

Ringed tortoise beetle, Ischnocodia annulus, Chrysomelidae

Photographed in Belize by tshahan

[lazchance]

bumpy tortoise beetle!!! (Gonophora pulchella)

a common leaf beetle... its pretty cool looking i love that texture

it looks like overroasted corn on the cob like all the kernels burnt off and if you lick it. it would be the bitterness of burnt stuff

[herpsandbirds]

Spotted Paropsine Beetle (Paropsis maculata), family Chrysomelidae, QLD, Australia

photograph via: Brisbane Insects

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 1ST, 2024 | Image IDs: Five photos of a black, white, and brown elm calligrapher beetle on the black plastic cap of a large object /End IDs.]

[celestial-games]

I made a few tortoise beetles :] I love these guys

[crevicedwelling]

this poop… pooped on me!

fulcidacinin warty leaf beetles mimic debris, and often bear a striking resemblance to the little barrel-shaped frass pellets caterpillars leave. they’re already quite lumpy and round but can retract all their appendages into little niches to really appear like a turd.

if you look up close, though, they’re wonderfully metallic and bear a curious zipper-like edge to their elytra

if you still don’t believe that this is a living animal, here it is with the legs extended. I’d have better pictures, but the little shit stayed rolled up for 30 minutes straight but of course I take 2 minutes to try to get photos of some flies and it walks way deep into the weeds.

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Look at this adorable chonky tomato!!!!!!!! Who knew milkweed leaf beetle larvae were so CUTE?

[grrl-beetle]

Leaf Beetle

[stellartistic]

Bug 14

leaf beetle

[miyrumiyru]

This Korean Willow (Salix pierotii) is now belongs to :

Spotted Willow Leaf Beetle (Chrysomela vigintipunctata)

남생이무당벌레 (Aiolocaria hexaspilota)

[critter-creature-or-beast]

By Ilona Loser - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

[onenicebugperday]

Blue and red flea beetle, Aspicela scutata, Chrysomelidae

Found primarily in Colombia and Ecuador

Photo 1 by Judy Gallagher, 2 by tshahan, 3-4 by adrien_jailloux, and 5-6 by franklinhowley

[lazchance]

hello my dears... the last time i shot a tortoise beetle it became the most noted post on my blog... so heres another tortoise beetle i saw

what's red and black and gold all over? Chiridopsis scalaris is another tortoise beetle with that cool translucent edge just like my previous asian tortoise beetle sighting. like other tortoise beetles, this one was real small, kinda like pinky nail sized

always makes me so excited to see tortoise beetles. i wish i saw them more often. i regret not taking more pics of this lil guy from more angles but i didnt have long before it flew away

coincidentally, i saw the flat abdomen crab spider (Camaricus maugei) just next to the tortoise beetle, with a strikingly similar colour palette!!

a very common crab spider species that ive somehow never shot before? only for it to appear right next to a tortoise beetle sharing the red and black and gold colouration. and clear legs too! how crazy is that

i know its probably just a coincidence but i like to think theres some sort of ecological reason they were found together. entomologists please feel free to prove this and make my day

[herpsandbirds]

Rainbow Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina cerealis), family Chrysomelidae, Snowdon, Wales

photograph by Janet Graham 

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MAY 8TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Five photos of a black and red eastern babia beetle on a green leaf, a human hand holding the leaf in place for the photos /End IDs.]

Babia quadriguttata, the eastern babia beetle!