Sometimes you go looking for insects and sometimes they find you. At lunchtime today I lifted up a few rocks in the local wood and found a couple of beetles. I was having trouble IDing them so I started watching a YouTube video by Chris Foster from the UK Ground Beetle recording scheme. He mentioned light traps as one way of attracting ground beetles, which made me think today's mild weather would be a good day to put my moth trap out 1/n

#beetles #coleoptera #groundbeetle #carabidae

Two #beetles and a #sawfly from the #Malaise trap, Aranda, ACT, #Australia in the final six weeks.

A tiny (c. 1.75 mm long) #weevil (#Curculionidae), 7-14 October 2022, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/145544602

A #GroundBeetle (#Carabidae), 21-28 October 2022, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/145555369

A #sawfly (? #Pergidae), 21-28 October 2022, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/145555362

#Coleoptera # Hymenoptera #entomology