Mastodawn

Illustration of an oil beetle (Meloe impressus) 🐞
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #beetle #oilbeetle #bug

Ashe🐈‍⬛🍄Apr 3, 2025

I've decided today is bugposting day so here's a CHUNKY friend that I'm told you probably shouldn't touch. This is an unidentified species of oil beetle (genus Meloe), if you think you know the species feel free to throw suggestions in the replies or on the iNat observation

#insects #bugposting #oilbeetle #NaturePhotography #photography

Márton Salomváry Mar 12, 2025

More signs of #spring! Violets blossoming, oil beetles mating, adonis vernalis blooming, frogs having a #threesome.

#violets #adonis #OilBeetle

discovering nature Apr 8, 2023

Yesterday this European oil beetle crossed my path. It looked so big! And later I read that the female ones are the big ones. The german Wikipedia tells me that they lay 3000–9500 eggs - and do this 5 to 6 times!! No wonder they have to be that big....
#OilBeetle #insects #nature #naturephotography