Local Beetles
Click on a beetle in the display case for a closer look
To help you gauge the size of these insects please note that this
display case is 21 inches (53 cm.) in length and 14 inches (36 cm.) in height
Alphabetical listing of insects in the display case
- Alaus oculatus "Eyed Click Beetle"
- Anthonomus grandis "Boll Weevil"
- Bolbocerosoma farctum
- Buprestis rufipes "Flat Headed Borer"
- Calopteron reticulatum "Net Winged Beetle"
- Calosoma scrutator "Fiery Searcher"
- Calosoma sayi
- Canthon chalcides "Tumblebug"
- Canthon viridis "Tumblebug"
- Chalcophora virginiensis "Large Flat-headed Pine Heartwood Borer"
- Chrysochus auratus
- Cicindela sexguttata
- Cicindela punctulata
- Cicindela purpurea
- Cotalpa lanigera
- Cotinis nitida "Green June Beetle"
- Cybister sp. "Predaceous Diving Beetle"
- Desmocercus palliatus "Flower Longhorn Beetle"
- Dicaelus dialatus "Notched Mouth Ground Beetle"
- Dictyopterus aurora
- Dineutes sp. "Whirligig Beetle"
- Dynastes tityus - female "Eastern Hercules Beetle, Rhinoceros Beetle, Unicorn Beetle"
- Dynastes tityus - male "Eastern Hercules Beetle, Rhinoceros Beetle, Unicorn Beetle"
- Enaphalodes sp.
- Enoclerus ichneumoneus "Checkered Beetle"
- Epicauta pestitera "Margined Blister Beetle"
- Euphoria inda "Bumble Flower Beetle"
- Euphoria fulgida
- Galerita bicolor "False Bomdardier Beetle"
- Geotrupes splendidus "Earth Boring Dung Beetle"
- Hydrophilis triangularis "Giant Water Scavenger Beetle"
- Leptinotarsa decimlineata "Colorado Potato Beetle"
- Lucanus elaphus - male "Giant Stag Beetle"
- Megacephala carolina
- Megacephala virginica
- Megacyllene robinae "Locust Borer"
- Megalodacne heros "Pleasing Fungus Beetle"
- Meloe sp. "Blister Beetle, Oil Beetle"
- Metriona sp. "Tortoise Beetle"
- Monocesta coryli
- Monochamus titillator "Southern Pine Sawyer"
- Neoclytus acuminatus "Red-headed Ash Borer"
- Nicrophorus sp. "Sexton Beetle, Burying Beetle"
- Odontotaenius disjunctus "Bess Beetle, Peg Beetle, Patent Leather Beetle"
- Orthosoma brunneum "Brown Prionid"
- Pasimachus depressus "Pedonculate Ground Beetle"
- Pelidnota punctata "Spotted Pelidota"
- Phanaeus vindex "Dung Beetle"
- Phileurus truncatus
- Photinus pyralis "Firefly, Lightning Bug"
- Phylophaga sp. "May Beetle, June Beetle"
- Pinotus carolinus
- Plagiometriona clavata "Tortoise Beetle"
- Plectrodera scalator
- Polyphylla sp. "June Beetle"
- Popillia japonica "Japanese Beetle"
- Prionus pocularis "Tooth-necked Long Horn Beetle"
- Pseudolucanus capreolus "Pinching Bug"
- Pseudolucanus pleidus "Stag Beetle"
- Rhynchophorus cruentatus
- Scaphinotus unicolor "Snail Eating Ground Beetle"
- Silpha americanus "Carrion Beetle"
- Staphylinus maxillosus villosus "Large Rove Beetle"
- Strategus julianus - female
- Strategus julianus - male
- Temnochila virescens "Bark Gnawing Beetle"
- Trichiotinus bidens "Flower Beetle"
- Trigonopelastes delta "Flower Beetle"
- Trox sp. "Hide Beetle"