#3259 · 🪲 beetles

Summer Chafer

🇳🇱 Junikever ·Amphimallon solstitiale

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jürgen Mangelsdorf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © gbohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. 6826 LX Arnhem, Nederland:© onelovenature · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Plein 1992, Maastricht, Limburg, NL:© hermanusnlflora · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 6525 EC Nijmegen, Nederland:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
10. Waalwijk:© hellie69 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

79 in) in length. They are declining in numbers now, but where found they are often seen in large numbers. At dusk they actively fly around tree tops looking for a mate and can often be found drowning in pools of water the following morning. They are also attracted to light and...

base stats

NL sightings 107iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 17,199iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).