Lakenheath Beetles

With a rise in temperature and even some watery sun, there were abundant insects and other small creatures to photograph yesterday at Lakenheath Fen. Here a few of the Beetles - the Coleoptera is the largest of all Insect orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms. The largest family is the Curculionidae (weevils), with some 83,000 member species. Here a small Weevil about to take flight and a Click beetle launching. Otherwise a selction of the many species found and photographed with varying success on depth of field etc.