small black shiny beetle with a noticeable probosis - another one, with out the probosis but otherwise the same, landed nearby. the second one had orange/red wings.
Stag beetle in a hole beneath the bark of a rotting log. I wonder if she was laying eggs or had just emerged from a pupa. The nearby maggots' observation is https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3199148
Stag beetle in a hole beneath the bark of a rotting log. I wonder if she was laying eggs or had just emerged from a pupa. The nearby maggots' observation is https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3199148
