Nick Upton / Larvae of Bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) about to pupate on its food plant Goose grass / Cleavers (Galium aparine) on fringe of chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Nick Upton / Lesser Bloody-nosed beetles (Timarcha goettigensis) mating, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, April.

Nick Upton / Lesser Bloody-nosed Beetle (Timarcha goettingensis) on a dead plant stem in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, March.

Philippe Clement / Bloody-nosed beetle / Blood spewer / Blood spewing beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) on leaf, La Brenne, France, September

Paul Harcourt Davies / Bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) climbing down a plant stem, Italy, Europe.

Gary K. Smith / Bloody nosed beetles, {timarcha tenebricosa} mating on Braken leaves on heathland floor, Norfolk, UK, April

Elliott Bignell / Bloody nosed beetles mating (Timarcha goettingensis) UK

PREMAPHOTOS / Bloody nosed beetles mating {Timarcha tenebricosa} England, UK, Europe

PREMAPHOTOS / Bloody nose beetle with defence fluid (Timarcha tenebricosa) UK

Kim Taylor / Bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) portrait, Dorset, England

Premaphotos / Common bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) larva feeding on Bedstraw (Galium sp) its food plant, UK