Solvin Zankl / Namib desert beetle / Fog Basking Beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) drinking droplets of water which gather on its body during the early morning fog over the dunes, Namib desert, Namibia

Solvin Zankl / Namib desert beetle {Stenocara gracilipes} running over hot sand on its long legs, Namib desert, Namibia

Mark Moffett / Darkling Beetle (Onymacris unguicularis) collecting dew on its upturned body, Namib Desert, Namibia

Floris van Breugel / Darkling Beetle (Tenebrionidae) on sand in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, USA, April.

Nick Upton / Comb-clawed beetle (Pseudocistela ceramboides) climbing up Common hogweed flower stem, Gloucestershire pastureland, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Comb-clawed beetle (Pseudocistela ceramboides) on old Common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) flowers, Gloucestershire pastureland, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Large Darkling beetle with spiky thorax (Akis bacarozzo), running on streamside river gravel. Corsica, France, June.

Daniel Heuclin / Dune Darkling beetle (Eleodes suturalis) in head-stand posture, White Sands National Park, New-Mexico, USA

Stephen Dalton / Flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) feeding on bread, UK

Rod Williams / Giant fregate beetle (Polsosipus herculeanus) captive, from Fregate Island (Seychelles) Critically Endangered

Solvin Zankl / Namib desert / Fog basking beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) Namib desert, Namibia

Bruno D'Amicis / Beetle (Tenebrio sp) walking on sand dune in the Sahara desert, Erg Chebbi, Southern Morocco, NW Africa