Ant Lab | Beetles in Flight with Joe Pera @AntLab | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
12 species across 10 families, narrated by Joe Pera!

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Joe's stand up special: youtu.be/9_97zE4GRZk?si=5_ZrXTPTMGZSyk9N
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00:00 - grapevine beetle
01:15 - oriental beetle
02:15 - Japanese beetle
02:38 - water scavenger beetle
03:48 - picnic beetle
04:17 - jewel beetle
04:59 - tumbling flower beetle
06:36 - tiger beetle
07:13 - clay-colored leaf beetle
08:16 - soldier, longhorn, & checkered beetles

Taxonomic info
Grapevine beetle - Pelidnota punctata
Oriental beetle - Anomala orientalis
Japanese beetle - Popillia japonica
Water scavenger beetle – family Hydrophilidae
Picnic beetle – Glischrochilus fasciatus
Jewel beetle – Dicerca obscura (probably)
Tumbling flower beetle – family Mordellidae
Punctured Tiger Beetle - Cicindelidia punctulate
Clay-colored leaf beetle - Anomoea laticlavia
Two-lined leather-wing (soldier beetle) – Atalantycha bilineata
Flat oak borer (longhorn beetle) – Smodicum cucujiforme
Checkered beetle – family Cleridae

Still images from Matt Bertone and Nicolás Galvez
Tumbling flower beetle SEM image from:
Rueter, M. (1995). Studies on the functional morphology of the jump in tumbling flower beetles (Coleoptera, Mordellidae). Acta Biologica Bendrodis 7, 99-133.

Music licensed from soundofpicture.com