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Luminous click beetle

Pyrophorus sp

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

the glowing eyespots on the back of this click beetle look like staring alien eyes, see photo #2

Habitat:

rainforest, 1400m

Notes:

I spotted this on a nighthike in Yotoco natural reserve. At first spotting I thought it was eyes of something but then thought it strange that they kept glowing after I took my light off them. They can control the lights and after spending a bit of time taking its photo, it dimmed the intensity so much, that they were hardly noticeable.

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Pyrophorus (beetle)

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Comments (15)
Dan Doucette
Thanks for all the comments! harsuame I'm shooting this manually, no function for effect. I had the camera on a tripod focused on the insect, which was staying still, then I did a one second exposure to capture the glowing eyes.
rutasandinas
bella!! which use camera function for Eye Effect
patty
cool, maybe they use them to attract pray... Because if they don´t want to camouflage at night it must be for a different purpose...sort of what fish do deep in the ocean... Greetings =)

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PublishedApril 7, 2013

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