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Beetles – Lycidae

Order Coleoptera – Beetles

   Superfamily Elateroidea
      Family Lycidae – Crimson Beetles
         Genera – Dictyopyera, Platycis, Pyropterus

Platycis minutus mating pair, Sherwood Forest CP. Notts.
Platycis minutus, Sherwood Forest CP, Notts.
Platycis minutus, Treswell Wood, Notts.
Platycis minutus, Treswell Wood, Notts.
Platycis minutus, Treswell Wood, Notts.

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Thursday 8 April 2026 to Owston at 1.30 pm 7 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 3rd April 2026 at 6.30pm Thorpe Marsh nature reserve. 1 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 26th March at Parklands Club 7-9.30pm. 24 March 2026
  • Next Meeting – Tuesday 17th March 2026 – joint meeting with the moviemakers 16 March 2026
  • Forthcoming Event – Woodfield Park Bioblitz 19 & 20 June 2026 4 March 2026

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Helleborus foetidus - Stinking Hellebore, Barrow Hills IMG_6180

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Spangle galls Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca - False Chantrelle, Budby Common, Notts. Mediterranean Gull, NWT Lound. Letter Sep 25 80 from Stiles Roesel's Bush Cricket. Matthew-Henry-Stiles-Died-9-May-1935-bur-Hyde-Park-Cemetery Morchella-esculenta Acleris emergana, Austerfield. True fox sedge Sphinx pinastri - Pine Hawk-moth, Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield.
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