Remaining small beetles (various families)

This is the largest group of beetles. Not closely related at all, but dealt with on this page, because they are all small to very small beetles, often very difficult to identify. Many of these very small beetles are even out of our camera's range. A few rove beetles are rather big, such as the Devil's Coach-horse, but the majority of these species are very small. There are hundreds of species in Western Europe. In Holland alone some 1,000 species have been found! The Mordellidae family is comprised of very small beetles with a pointed rear end. In summer some species are frequently seen visiting flowers. Members of the Skin Beetle-family are notorious in grain and musea for eating stock and dead insects. And even though everybody has seen the small holes in wood caused by woodworms, the adult beetles are not very often seen.