Favoritos de meleoron

Eating an aphid (118465961)

Underneath leaves of chestnut tree. Looks a little like small lightning bugs.

Saw many small individuals (more than 30 per flower) on several sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)

Some of the cantharid beetle members of the huge black & orange mimicry ring in my region, Cosanga, Napo, Ecuador, ~2100 meters elevation.

About 1 cm long.

very small

Tiny beetle less than 9 mm long. Pectinate antennae. Found crawling on top of a freezer stored outside.

At Blacklight

https://bugguide.net/node/view/197747

The beetle facing toward the upper right.

Or Lampyridae?

Warbling vireo for scale I guess. He looked very tasty, note observation date in May.

The beetle

A soldier beetle larva scavenging the corpse of a beetle.

Not sure what the bright red thing on it's side is

eating a caterpillar?

This beetle was found deep in the dark of a partially sealed, long abandoned train tunnel in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a habitat that has been colonized by numerous troglophytic organisms.

Soldier beetle larvae, please.(Feeding on an Ironweed Borer moth).

Berlese funnel of litter from forest of oak, hickory, tuliptree, beech, a little dry.

On Maximilian's sunflower

Eating a Two-lined Leatherwing.