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Lightning 'click' beetle
Elateridae: Pyrophorini
10.3083, -84.8112
Field Notes
Description:
These beetles emit a click sound when handled to scare the predator and to warn other beetles. If this is not cool enough already: when touched or alarmed they emit light by the two yellow spots!
They emit one the brightest lights out of all the bioluminescent bugs in the whole world. When alarmed the two spots light up green. When they fly, a different spot on their belly glows yellow-orange.
Habitat:
Native to the forests of Central America. These were kept in a terrarium.
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