I suggest using iNaturalist
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/ it is a community of citizen scientists, but it leans on the side of academia (who make use of the data for research papers), so it's very reliable. It has a fairly accurate A.I vision model which does a great job of identifying things. So it can provide suggestions even if you don't want to submit the "Observation".
If you're not happy with the A.I suggestions then lodge the observation, but make sure you classify it at the highest level you can even if you're not sure. So for beetles, you can choose 'winged and once winged insects' or something higher if you know a genus etc. This step is import because a lot of people who work to identify species on the site work within boundaries (so the 'fish' people don't often look at 'flowers' and the 'tree' people don't look at 'butterflies').
The higher up your observation moves towards Species level, the more sets of eyes will look at it. It helps to get as clear a photo as possible for both the humans and the AI to help identify. So it may progress from Living thing -> insect -> winged insects -> beetles -> scarab beetles etc. over a series of iterations.
It's no promise, but the majority of things I've uploaded (close to 1000 observations) get identified usually within 48 hours. If not, you can find experts on the site and tag them and typically you will get some help.
Because this site is used by academia, it has a very polite community.
Then I picked off as many of the bugs I could find. These little buggers are 3-4mm long, quite bulbous, and look like a beetle of some kind. Each one had a white substance under them. They produce a satisfying amount of internal liquid when squished. Also, after spraying, the ants started racing down the trunk with some of the immature ones.
