Beetle tattoo ideas

74 photos and flash · 24% Botanical, 23% Realism · Forearm most common

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Collage of six photographs of floral tattoos on shoulders and arms, including a stag head with flowers, poppies, blue blooms and black and grey chrysanthemums.
Floral tattoos on shoulders and arms
Pink flash sheet of black and pink gothic designs including a skull, werewolf head, skeleton, coffin, raven and eyes.
Gothic flash sheet with skulls, skeleton and creature
Flash sheet of horror tattoo designs in black and pink, including a skull, werewolf head, open mouth with fangs, skeleton, coffin, raven and creature head on a pink background.
Horror flash sheet with skulls, skeleton and coffin
Traditional style black and grey insect tattoos stacked down both calves, with beetles, a bee and a wasp, and touches of ochre and yellow ink.
Six insects stacked down two calves
Black and grey winged scarab beetle tattoo spread across a bare lower abdomen, beside the navel, in traditional style.
Winged scarab across the lower abdomen
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a beetle with red crystal clusters on its back, set over a blue and orange circle with a black ring and dotted lines, on a lower limb.
Crystal beetle over a two-tone circle
Colour tattoo of a black stag beetle with yellow wings and a faceted green gem on the back of a hand, in a neo-traditional style.
Stag beetle with green gem on the hand
Traditional style tattoo of a teal and orange beetle with a central eye and green leaves, placed on the upper back near the neck.
Traditional beetle with eye on upper back
Colourful botanical tattoo of a green beetle with purple flowers and leaves on the forearm of a person wearing a dark top.
Beetle and purple flowers on a forearm
Close-up of a realistic red ladybird tattoo with black spots and shaded legs on a pale area of skin.
Realistic ladybird tattoo on skin
Black and white book illustration of a drawn face with geometric facial tattoo motifs, beside a printed table of Berber symbols including ram, bull, lizard and scorpion.
Berber facial motifs and symbol table
Colour tattoo of a stag beetle in a watercolour style on a lower leg, inside dashed circles with green, yellow and purple washes.
Watercolour beetle on a calf
Pink flash sheet of black and pink horror designs including a skeleton, werewolf head, coffin, raven, snake, bats, eyes and a severed hand.
Horror flash sheet with skeleton and werewolf
Realistic colour tattoo of a pink petunia-style flower with a blue ladybird on the petals, set against a teal shadow on skin.
Pink flower with a blue ladybird
Colour tattoo of a blue Volkswagen camper van, an orange Beetle and a red camper van in front of a large VW logo, on the forearm.
Volkswagen vans and Beetle on a forearm
Back of a neck and shoulder with a shaded grey floral tattoo featuring purple blooms and small ants and a beetle.
Grey floral tattoo across neck and shoulder
Small red and black tattoo of a beetle-like motif with curled black antennae and black dots, on the upper back below a white strap.
Red and black beetle on upper back
Green shaded beetle above a fan of overlapping green scales tattooed on a thigh, with the wearer lying on a white bed.
Green beetle and scales on a thigh
Vertical strip of five black line-art flash designs on cream, including a moth with BERN CITY text, a lobster, a beetle and two animal faces, in a monoline geometric style.
Five line-art creature flash designs
Four black line drawings of stylised beetles stacked vertically on a cream background, in a fine line and geometric flash style with dot and star accents.
Four stylised beetles in black line
Flash sheet of drawn designs including crossed knives, a coiled snake, a dog's head, a bottle labelled Kingpin and a beetle, in navy and orange on cream.
Flash sheet of knives, snakes and objects
Colour botanical tattoo of two red poppies on a stem with a seed pod, leaves and a beetle, running down a person's back and side.
Red poppies and beetle down the back
Symmetrical tattoo design of a stag beetle framed by geometric lines and shaded grey flowers, shown as a standalone flash drawing.
Symmetrical stag beetle and flowers in geometric frame
Black and grey fine line tattoos of a beetle and a skeletal bird with fern sprigs across two forearms.
Beetle and bird skeleton on forearms
Black and grey tattoo of ornate scissors with a beetle on one blade, shown on the inner forearm, in a dotwork and realism style.
Scissors and beetle on a forearm
Traditional style flash sheet of repeating tattoo designs, including daggers through skulls, swallows, pin-up women, hearts, roses and a scorpion, on a tan background.
Traditional flash sheet with skulls, hearts and pin-ups