18 Cool and Colorful Beetles

Macro photography is always an immensely popular subject here on Light Stalking. We've covered it in several collections and macro tutorials (The Secret of Successful Macro Photography and Macro: Seven Tips for Photographing Insects), but the demand remains. So here are a few great macro photographs of beetles to help inspire and motivate. Enjoy.

jewel beetle on tree branch — Image by Bambang Suryadi

close up photo of ladybug on leaf during daytime — Image by Pixabay

beetle on green leaf — Image by Egor Kamelev

macro photography of insect in yellow flower — Image by Erik Karits

brown weevil perched on green leaf in closeup photo — Image by Egor Kamelev

close up photo of beetle — Image by Egor Kamelev

selective focus photography of black leaf horned beetle — Image by Egor Kamelev

brown insect in macro shot photography — Image by Egor Kamelev

close up photography of blue beetle — Image by Egor Kamelev

green black and brown insect — Image by Pixabay

animal antenna beetle biology — Image by Pixabay

leaves insect beetle potato — Image by Pixabay

green june beetle on tree bark with green mosh in closeup — Image by Amir Banuazizi

macro photography of green beetle on green leaf — Image by Jimmy Chan

close up photography of green and black insect — Image by Egor Kamelev

macro shot of gray insect — Image by Egor Kamelev

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Rob is the founder of Light Stalking. His love for photography started as a child with a Kodak Instamatic and pushed him into building this fantastic place all these years later, and you can get to know him better here.
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8 Comments

Woow its cool website

amazing….!!! so beautiful color n smart shoot.

Nice. But I expected pictures of the Beatles. The bug is spelled ‘beetle’!

Incredible!

Absolutely amazing shots! Nice work!

Very nice, but the title of the post is misleading; photos 1,5, and 7 aren’t beetles, they are bugs (order hemiptera not Coleoptera).

Actually the true bugs are photos numbers 1,3,5,9…the rest are beetles, I think…some angles make ID challenging.

Hey there, great macrophotography, loved the gallery!
You DO know the creatures are BEETLES don’t you? (Beatles was the name of a semi-successful English band from the 60s)
Keep up the good work,
cheers
Creog