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    Tiny red beetles

    Maybe they are Cardinal beetles, but I thought they were too small.

    Red beetles by Carol Leather, on Flickr
    Regards,

    Carol

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    Well done Carol

    Tom

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      you have a pair mating

      there are quite a few similar coloured beetles but a cardinal has a black head, I think. Looking in Collins, yours are most likely pyrochroa serraticornis - another of those insects that does not appear to have a common name
      Stan - LRPS, CPAGB, BPE2*

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        Thank you Tom and Stan. Trust me to photograph something obsucre, LOL.
        Regards,

        Carol

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          Originally posted by Carol View Post
          Thank you Tom and Stan. Trust me to photograph something obsucre, LOL.
          Yet you did it so well...
          Nigel

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            These are definitely Rhagonycha fulva, a very common soldier beetle. They can easily be recognised by the dark tip to the elytra (the wing covers). Most soldier beetles are around in May and June, when their season finishes this one appears in large numbers. It is often (very often) found mating and likes hogweed flowers, hence has been given the joke name Hogweed Bonking Beetle, not a name you find in books...…………..
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              I also wouldn't use the word "tiny" for these, believe me by beetle standards they are pretty big. I write having spent the whole morning fishing out (under a microscope) thousands of beetles and other insects that were collected in traps as part of a contract survey, I'd say 95% of the insects were smaller than these, many only a millimetre or two long. When you go out and look for, and photograph, insects you only see a tiny percentage of what's there. Of course, I never get time to photograph them ………………….
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