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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲
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I 🖤 entomology (I rear beetles; especially stag and flower beetles), hiking, sewing, crafting, folklore, horror & my 12 year old daughter. I have a PhD in Molecular Biology that focussed on plant and insect semiochemicals. She/her. Goth innit.
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The Sun Beetles (Pachnoda marginata peregrina) are starting to emerge. Did you know that as they metamorphose, they shed their larval body including the head leaving it like a mask. Fascinating stuff. #BeetleSunday#PachnodaMarginataPeregrina

Super bright newly emerged imago.
The shed outer body of the larva in a pipal cell. The face is clearly visible.
Larvae of differing instars.
Three newly emerged imagos looking brightly coloured and one dull older adult.
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I want a colony of these cuties so badly. Congrats on your newly transformed babies!

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲
@drracheal.bsky.social
I 🖤 entomology (I rear beetles; especially stag and flower beetles), hiking, sewing, crafting, folklore, horror & my 12 year old daughter. I have a PhD in Molecular Biology that focussed on plant and insect semiochemicals. She/her. Goth innit.
128 followers109 following571 posts
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