NB8h ago
Dinner for two 🍽️ for #wildflowerwednesday and #wildlifewednesday

These are Mediterranean Spotted Chafers or White Spotted Rose Beetles, (Oxythyrea funesta), having a lovely little pollen supper one evening in the woods. ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #flowerstagram #blooms #spring #flowers #flower #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #urban #daisy #insect #beetle #chafer #woods #park #closeup #macro #nature #naturephotography #italia #italy #bologna #photo #canon #canonphotography
JackHuskyMay 31, 2025
An Copper Chafer.
📸 2025/05/31

#photography #nature #chafer #germany #saxony
Maikel de BakkerMay 7, 2025
The common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha), also colloquially known as the Maybug, Maybeetle, or doodlebug, is a species of scarab beetle belonging to the genus Melolontha. It is native to Europe, and it is one of several closely-related and morphologically similar species of Melolontha called cockchafers, alongside Melolontha hippocastani (the forest cockchafer).

#photography #photographer #canon #canonphotography #justgoshoot
#portraitofabugphotography #bugpics #forest #travel #lovenature #naturelove #NoordBrabant #spring #springishere #macrobug #canon5d #cockchafer #canon5dmark3 #bug #springtime #macro #chafer #spangbeetle #billywitch #zandmeikever
Maikel de BakkerMay 7, 2025
While plants grow, you can see new developments on a really small scale

#photography #photographer #canon #canonphotography #justgoshoot
#plantpics #forest #travel #lovenature #naturelove #NoordBrabant #spring #springishere #plant #macroplant #canon5d #canon5dmark3 #springtime #macrophotography
Peter RileyJul 12, 2024

A colourful fluffy #coot chick swims in a lake near #Rottweil, Germany.
Photograph: Silas Stein

A blue-coloured #treefrog, normally known for its green colour, holds on to a leaf in the #Karacabey district of #Bursa, Turkey
Photograph: Anadolu

A rose #chafer beetle often seen on flowers; they’re a #detritivore - feeds on dead and decaying matter and recycle its nutrients - which makes a helpful addition to any #compost.
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine

Mary C LeggMay 6, 2024
Forest or Chestnut Chockchafer, Melolontha hippocastani Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/3.5 1/200 iso: 400 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 5/22/2011 #Coleoptera #Scarabidae #Scarabs #Cockchafer #Chafer #beetles #insects #invertebrates #macro #woodlands
Mary C LeggNov 4, 2023
Garden Foliage Beetle, Phyllopertha horticola Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/3.5 1/80 iso: 400 #betles #AmazingBeetles #Chafer #Scarabidae #scarabs #Coleoptera #insects #invertebrates #Macro
JoachimSep 3, 2023

Ein kleines Juwel sitzt auf der Zucchinipflanze, die ich heute aus dem Beet entfernen will. Das Jäten muss also noch etwas warten.

#Fotografie #Garten #Insekten #Käfer #Cetonia #Natur #photography #garden #insects #chafer #nature

Jonathan MatthewsJun 20, 2023
Hot And Horny Cockchafers And Summer Chafers Are In Your Area 😉 #wildlife #wildlifephotography #ukwildlife #beetles #beetle #chafer #cockchafer #summerchafer #WestMidlands #England #AwwwwwYeah
Plazi SpeciesApr 21, 2023

#NewSpecies
New chafer from India just flashed up:
Melolontha arunachalensis

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC1F87FF-1379-FFF0-FF74-FC6FFA82BCEF
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5263.2.2
#Zootaxa

#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #entomology #insects #coleptera #beetles #bugs #chafer #india

Melolontha arunachalensis Gupta, Keith, Bhunia, Das, Ghosh & Chandra 2023, new species - Plazi TreatmentBank