Click beetle

Click Beetles – Family Elateridae Beetles in the family Elateridae are commonly called click beetles, elaters, skipjack, snapping, or spring beetles. They possess a mechanism by which they can violently launch themselves several inches into the air, a method they use to avoid predators and right themselves if they happen to fall on their backs. […]

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"Cocuyo" Glowing Click Beetle - Ignelater havaniensis - BugGuide.Net

Portrait of a large click beetle (5cm, aff. Tetralobus flabellicornis, Elateridae) from Yangambi (DR Congo, November 2013). Studio work with a dead specimen, rehydrated and staged. Focus stack, 94 images, assembled in Zerene Stacker (Pmax & Dmap). Sony A7Rm3 + FE 2.8/90 Macro G OSS; ISO-50, f/4, 1/250s, 1 diffused strobe.

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This week while meandering along a pathway in a forest, Bug of the Week happened upon a most remarkable beetle, the eyed click beetle. One look at this big beauty (up to 1 ½ inches long) provides instant understanding of how “eyed” became part of its name. As you stare at the beetle, two large and i

Pyrophorus punctatissimus is a species of click beetle (family Elateridae). (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophorus_punctatissimus, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) José Luis Barberán, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by José Luis Barberán)

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