Guernsey Wildlife &


Nature Photography



 

 


Beetles



There are a lot of different beetle species in Guernsey, many hundreds. These are some of the ones I have come across and which are generally possible to identify with a small degree of certainty without microscopic examination.


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Agrypnus murinus


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Amphimallon solstitialis - Summer Chafer


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Arhopalus rusticus


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Black Oil Beetle - Meloe proscarabaeus


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Calathus melanocephalus


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Cassida nobilis - Pale Tortoise Beetle


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Cicindela campestris - Green Tiger Beetle


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Dor Beetle - Geotrupes stercorarius


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Lesser Bloody nosed beetle - Timarcha goettingensis


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May Bug - Cockchafer - Melolontha melolontha


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Minotaur Beetle - Typhaeus typhoeus


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Necrodes littoralis


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Nicrophorus humator


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Notoxus monocerus


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Oedemera nobilis - Thick-legged Flower Beetle


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Panagaeus bipustulatus


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Red Soldier Beetle - Rhagonycha fulva (these are always mating)


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Rosemary Beetle - Chrysolina americana


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Tawny Cockroach - Ectobius pallidus


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Wasp Beetle - Clytus arietis