DutchipediaThe visual encyclopedia of Dutch words

Kevers van tuin en bos

Beetles of garden and wood

The beetles you meet outdoors, from het lieveheersbeestje to het vliegend hert. Hover a picture, or tap it on a phone, to hear the name.

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Image credits

Photographs and drawings come from Wikimedia Commons and are reproduced under the licences below. All have been resized and converted to WebP for this site; they are otherwise unaltered.

het lieveheersbeestje — 7-Spotted-Ladybug-Coccinella-septempunctata-sq1.jpg by Photographer: Dominik Stodulski Graphic Processing: User:MathKnight, CC BY-SA 3.0
het Aziatisch lieveheersbeestje — Coccinelle asiatique (Harmonia axyridis).jpg by JackyM59, CC BY-SA 4.0
de meikever — Hanneton_commun_(Melolontha_melolontha)_♀,_Parc_de_Woluwé,_Bruxelles_(51222810874).jpg by Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0
de junikever — Amphimallon_solstitialis01.jpg by Entomart, Attribution
de rozenkever — Garden_chafer_beetle_(Phyllopertha_horticola).jpg by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
de gouden tor — Cetonia-aurata.jpg by Chrumps, CC BY-SA 3.0
het vliegend hert — Lucanus_cervus.jpg by J.F. Gaffard, CC BY-SA 3.0
de neushoornkever — Oryctes_nasicornis-002.jpg by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
de mestkever — Mestkever.jpg by Rasbak at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
de doodgraver — Necrophorus_vespillo_(Linné,_1758)_male_(3296105414).jpg by Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0
de loopkever — Carabus_auratus_with_prey.jpg by Soebe, CC BY-SA 3.0
de groene zandloopkever — Green_tiger_beetle_(Cicindela_campestris)_Sweden.jpg by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
de glimworm — Lampyridae_-_Lampyris_noctiluca.JPG by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
het vuurvliegje — Photuris_lucicrescens.jpg by Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5
het soldaatje — Rhagonycha_fulva_-_Galicia_-_01.jpg by IES MANUEL GARCÍA BARROS A ESTRADA- PONTEVEDRA, CC BY-SA 2.0
de kniptor — Denticollis.linearis.3.jpg by Sarefo, CC BY-SA 4.0
de boktor — Batus_barbicornis_MHNT_femelle.jpg by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 3.0
de muskusboktor — Aromia_moschata_(Linné,_1758)_(3962350347).jpg by Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0
de snuitkever — Weevil_September_2008-1.jpg by Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0
de oliekever — 2016-Meloe-Moscow.jpg by ivtorov, CC0
de zwartkopvuurkever — Pyrochroa.coccinea.female.jpg by soebe, CC BY-SA 3.0
de kortschildkever — Ocypus olens qtl1.jpg by Quartl, CC BY-SA 3.0
de bombardeerkever — Brachinus_spPCCA20060328-2821B.jpg by Patrick Coin (Patrick Coin), CC BY-SA 2.5
de prachtkever — Chrysochroa fulgidissima (Tamamushi) In Nature.PNG by Brian Adler (BrianAdler), Public domain