#3443 · 🪲 beetles
Bee-eating Beetle
🇳🇱 Bijenkever ·Trichodes apiarius
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Сергей Неклюдов · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Rácz Botond · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Roberto Ghiglia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michael Bierbaumer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Walwyn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Walwyn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Andrey Danilin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © frank007 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Trichodes apiarius is a beetle species of checkered beetles 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 6 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 16,538 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bee-eating Beetle
- Nederlands
- Bijenkever
- scientific name
- Trichodes apiarius
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cleridae
- sightings in NL
- 6
- sightings in Europe
- 15,834
- sightings worldwide
- 16,538
- GBIF records in NL
- 417
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Cleridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 55048, Wikidata Q579701, GBIF 5748264, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.