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click beetle

Elateridae

Photo by Oscar Vazquez
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Field Notes

Description:

a long, narrow beetle that can spring up with a click as a means of startling predators and escaping. Its larva is the wireworm.

Habitat:

basically any hole that they can make in dirt

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PublishedFebruary 18, 2016

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