#3425 · 🪲 beetles
Bee-eating Beetle
🇳🇱 Behaarde bijenwolf ·Trichodes alvearius
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Nederland
📍 6255 Noorbeek, Netherlands
📍 Dorpsstraat, Liempde, Noord-Brabant, NL
📍 5298 MB Liempde, Nederland
📍 Kraispot, Gemonde, Brabant, NL
📍 Oisterwijk, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Julian Kokott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © AnneTanne · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Nederland:© Wendy de Beer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 6255 Noorbeek, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Dorpsstraat, Liempde, Noord-Brabant, NL:© Bernard_22 · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 5298 MB Liempde, Nederland:© gijskurstjens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Kraispot, Gemonde, Brabant, NL:© vinnievanderzen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Oisterwijk, Netherlands:© Sonja Bouwman-Gringhuis · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Trichodes alvearius is a species of Soldier or Checkered beetle belonging to the family Cleridae, subfamily Clerinae.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 29 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,449 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1792 (234 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bee-eating Beetle
- Nederlands
- Behaarde bijenwolf
- scientific name
- Trichodes alvearius
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cleridae
- sightings in NL
- 29
- sightings in Europe
- 8,258
- sightings worldwide
- 8,449
- GBIF records in NL
- 946
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Cleridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 55047, Wikidata Q1645310, GBIF 5748234, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.