Favoritos de beetledude

Small insects living in the sand and humus.

Glow worm eating a snail

A deformed/malformed or normal beetle with tiny, short elytra ?
Area wiith a lot of white calcrete stones

In a hole on the ground.

Entomopathogenic fungi, found growing on a Coleoptera larvae, shown in later photos

Found wondering over the grass

Found along the coast in South Africa. Larvae eat a variety of vegetable matter, adults eat ripe fruit (pictured here eating pineapple).

CRG 1749

Food plant: Trichilia dregeana (Meliaceae)

This bright yellow Insect has a long snoutand was on a weed in the garden.

2.5-3mm long.

Collected by Marlin Rice and deposited in the collection at Texas A&M University, College Station.

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basalt hillside
garden
On old goat bone from kitchen waste in large compost heap