jewel beetles
metallic wood-boring beetles
buprestidae latin

Or why Australian jewel beetles try to mate with empty beer bottles, sometimes until their death?

But there are exceptions, like some jewel beetles.

Like many jewel beetles, the species is notable for its vivid, iridescent coloration.

The larger and more spectacularly colored jewel beetles are highly prized by insect collectors.

Trachys minutus is a species of jewel beetles belonging to the family Buprestidae.

Buprestidae Leach 1815, the jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles.

Also, the first jewel beetles (e.g. Buprestidae) are present, but they were rather rare until the Cretaceous.

Dragonflies, stick insects, jewel beetles and the praying mantis are other insects located in the reserve.

Buprestis (jewel beetles)

Buprestidae (Jewel beetles)

Called jewel beetles, their shells were often used for earrings and bracelets in countries such as Ecuador, Peru and India.

The World of Jewel Beetles (Buprestidae Home Page)

Jewel beetles belong to a family of insects called Buprestidae, hard-shelled creatures named for their shiny, metallic-looking shells, often dabbed with bright colors or spots.

Agrilus is a genus of jewel beetles, notable for having the largest number of species (about 3000) of any single genus of organism.

Buprestidae is a family of beetles, known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors.

Likewise, predatory species of Cleroidea and Cucujoidea hunted their prey under the bark of trees together with the jewel beetles (Buprestidae).

There he experimented with bones, with dung beetles, jewel beetles and other insects and began to use insects and their forms in his sculptures and theatrical works.

He is convinced that this skin will last far longer than paint: "The wing cases of the jewel beetles are made of chitin, one of the hardest, most imperishable materials we know.

Like other banksias, B. robur plays host to a wide variety of pollinators, including insects such as butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, ants and jewel beetles, and many bird species.

Other garden residents include cicadas, species of butterflies and other insects, such as emerald jewel beetles, while the Villa is home to geckos which are found in all parts of Thailand.

The food of the koinobiont Doryctinae larvae are most often the larvae of wood-boring beetles - such as jewel beetles (Buprestidae) -, on which the wasp larvae feed as ectoparasitoids.

The jewel beetles' diversity increased rapidly during the Cretaceous, as they were the primary consumers of wood, while longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) were rather rare, and their diversity increased only towards the end of the Upper Cretaceous.

Prey consists of a variety of spiders and insects, including caterpillars, wasps, bugs such as cicadas and cinch bugs, beetles such as jewel beetles, leaf beetles, leaf-eating beetles and weevils, flies and ants.

At the invitation of most unlikely patrons, the king and queen of Belgium, an artist has produced his latest and perhaps most extravagant venture in the Royal Palace here, decorating the principal hall with the wing cases of almost a million Asian jewel beetles.

For more than three years, Mr. Fabre said, he collected Asian jewel beetles, mobilizing the entomology departments of universities, researchers in the fields and above all a network of people picking them up from restaurant kitchens in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

Megaloxantha bicolor is a species of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae.

The metallic wood-boring beetles are the "most attractive of all beetles," the display text says.

Chrysochroa is a genus of metallic wood-boring beetles.

Buprestidae Leach 1815, the jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles.

Buprestidae is a family of beetles, known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors.

Euchroma is a genus of beetle in the family Buprestidae.

During his career he gathered some 16 000 specimens of Buprestidae, many of species new to science.

Julodis onopordi is a species of beetles belonging to the Buprestidae family.

He was a specialist in Buprestidae.

It belongs to the jewel beetle family, Buprestidae.

A check list of the Australian Buprestidae.

Megaloxantha bicolor is a species of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae.

Fisher was especially interested in Buprestidae and Cerambycidae.

He also was a very active entomologist specialising in beetles particularly Buprestidae and Scarabaeidae.

A catalogue of the higher taxa of the family Buprestidae (Coleoptera).

Cyphogastra calepyga is a Jewel Beetle of the Buprestidae family.

'gem-bug'）is a metallic woodboring beetle of the Buprestidae family.

Buprestidae Leach 1815, the jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles.

Buprestidae Ann.

Polycestinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following genera:

Buprestidae II.

Buprestidae IV.

Buprestidae VI.

Cyrioides elateroides is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae native to southwest Western Australia.

Buprestidae III.

A reassessment of the internal classification of the Buprestidae Leach (Coleoptera).

The higher classification of Australian Buprestidae with the description of a new genus and species (Coleoptera).

It is found in Baluchistan and is one of the largest species of the Buprestidae family, reaching up to 7 cm in length.

Steraspis squamosa or the Middle Eastern jewel beetle is a beetle of the Buprestidae family.

The unique design of the Buprestidae beetle's exoskeleton (genus Sternocera) channels water from temporary fog in the desert environment.