r/InsectPorn

I took this shot of a beetle in Gaeta, Italy on my mother in law's farm. Pretty common in the spring. Any help in getting an ID is greatly appreciated!

I think it’s a type of Scarab beetle! I flipped him over after his photoshoot

Now that may not sound dull, but the math is. I took a walk around and at any moment I was surrounded by hundreds of mosquitoes, so I decided to estimate how many mosquitoes were present. I observed an estimated 20-30 mosquitoes at any given moment in any given one square foot column vertically. Using the smaller estimate, that’s 880,000 mosquitoes per acre, I have 80 acres of land, making me host to upwards of 50 million mosquitoes indeed.

Shot this worker on a woodpile in Brodski Stupnik, Croatia. Two frames of the same individual — head-on first, then full profile showing the characteristic heart-shaped waist and gaster tilt.