#click bugs

[hellsitegenetics]

hello hellsitegenetics I have decided to try my luck here. I'm a marine science student and a general fanatic of the ocean so if I don't get some sort of Ocean Beastie I will be very sad. blast please don't do me dirty I'm on my knees begging you. please.

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Closest match: Agriotes lineatus genome assembly, chromosome: 10 Common name: Lined click beetle

#tumblr genetics #genetics #asks #requests #sent to me #astral-nautical #<- i can tell you're a marine sci student lol #bugs #insects #beetles #lined click beetle

[antiqueanimals]

The First Book of Bugs. Written and illustrated by Margaret Williamson. 1949.

Internet Archive

#bugs #insects #beetles #cucumber beetles #rhinoceros beetles #stag beetles #scarabs #burying beetles #click beetles #eastern eyed click beetles #long horned beetles #ground beetles #whirligig beetles #weevils #Margaret Williamson

[platycryptus]

Eyed Elaters (Alaus)

eyed elater click beetles, like this Alaus oculatus from Florida, are the biggest click beetles (Elateridae) found in temperate North America.

Click beetles are best known for their eponymous clicking ability- a sort of elastic locking mechanism on their thorax can snap open with a loud clicking sound, which helps them startle or escape the grasp of predators and allows them to launch themselves into the air when overturned (you can see that in slow motion at the end of the video)

(more elating click beetle trivia below!)

They live around decaying trees and logs, the adults feeding on sap flows and other sugary liquids while the predatory grubs use their powerful jaws to tunnel in search of other wood-dwelling insect larvae to devour (by contrast many smaller click beetle larvae, often called wireworms, feed on rotting wood itself or other plant matter). To rear these beetles in captivity it’s necessary to keep the larvae in containers made of a hard material like glass, as they’ll chew through plastic and escape (I learned this the hard way the first time I found and attempted to raise a grub).

There are 6 Alaus species in the US, the largest of which can be over 5 cm long. Two are found in forests along the east coast- A. oculatus, the eastern eyed elater (below, left) and its smaller relative A. myops, the blind elater (right).

Even though the larvae don't feed directly on decaying wood, different Alaus species prefer different trees- oculatus breeds in dead oaks and other hardwoods, while myops found in the same habitats only use well-rotted pines.

#beetles #elateridae #click beetle #coleoptera #Alaus #eyed elater #Alaus oculatus #Alaus myops #bugs #bugblr #entomology #insects

[crevicedwelling]

Ignelater havanensis, a large bioluminescent click beetle.

as if elaterids weren’t already fancy enough with their click mechanism, the tribe Pyrophorini have light-producing patches which glow brighter than most fireflies! their larvae are predatory and the adults eat fruit. one of the best neotropical beetles in my opinion… the US gets just a handful of species in Florida and Texas

one of the big gals glowing! almost enough to read by in a dark room, the video doesn’t do her justice

#beetles #bioluminecent #bugs #cw bugs #insect #click beetle

[cringefail-clown]

in turnabout au on earth c dirk HATES when jake and hal come visit, but not because he doesnt like them or anything, it simply turns out that having these two animal hybrid freaks over amplifies kankris unconcious alien bug vocalization to 1000 and vice versa. theyre watching a movie and hal bird chitters, to which kankri bug-clicks something back. it goes back and forth for a while and then JAKE starts chattering right the fuck back (yknow the way cats usually chirp back to birds). theyre not even aware theyre doing that. their movie sesh turns into a canary noises live show real goddamn fast. dirk hates it here.

same goes when they visit porrim and roxy, but roxy simply finds it adorbz.

#homestuck turnabout #turnabout au #dirk strider #lil hal #hal strider #jake english #kankri vantas #roxy lalonde #porrim maryam #the idea of them unconciously vocalizing shit to each other came into my head and i had to share it #this is so stupid #i always liked the headcanon of trolls making bug clicking noises its *chefs kiss*

[rumwik]

(Comm) A bug comic commissioned and conceptualized by an anonymous click beetle appreciator. I love these little creatures!

#Bug #Click Beetle #Comic #My artwork

[go-team-snakemouth]

[id in alt] A duo of troublemakers, what are they whispering about?

#I swear I'm not intentionally adding red to everyone's designs I accidentally clicked the color style and went. Oh dang this bangs #I might start drawingLeif like this tbh but haven't decided fully yet #bug fables #vi bf #leif bf

[the-meme-monarch]

am i supposed to be able to click this bug? it does not let me click this bug

#welcome home #when i first looked at the site for the update I saw this guy first and thought ‘oh! I will click that to see if it does anything’ #and then I couldn’t click it so I thought the bugs don’t do anything so i didn’t click any of the rest of them #until like the third time looking through the site bc i HEARD someone say the bugs are links #words from the monarch

[kekisu]

a redraw of my favorite official shuake art for my zines layout...

#my art #persona 5 #shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #Coughs. click link please itsthe first zine im ever running #Thanke.. you........... #ALSO REDRAWING THIS MADE ME NOTICE THINGS ABOUT THE ORIGINAL #there were always things that bugged me HELP #LIKE HOW LONG THEIR TORSOS LOOKED? AND GOROS SHOULDER

[lotrmusical]

this is playable now! silly interactive fiction twine game ft. highway robbers and fairies. on itch here / spring thing webpage here 🌿

#do i know what i'm doing? no. will that stop me? no #twine #interactive fiction #games by mo #if you find bugs for the love of god tell me. i am haunted and bedevilled by the prospect of things breaking #gay belligerence #this is mostly a 'click link to progress shenanigans' game. with like two puzzles in it #it's lived in my unfinished projects zone for about a billion years. time to expel it. in a jet of slime hagfish-style

[beanysprout]

thri kreen pretty cool :]

#I kind of rushed this drawing but something is better than nothing #three clicks #thri kreen #bug

[wrylu]

gaz's lunch gets interrupted

(full vers! ⬇)

#it looks better if you click on it #as always #because holy shit the quality is absolute buns #fun fact: #ladybugs are predators in the bug world #mini comic #comic #short comic #art #digital art #cod #call of duty #john price #captain price #captain john price #gaz #kyle garrick #kyle gaz garrick #gaz cod #cod gaz #price cod #cod price #teabagposts #teabagdraws #Call of Duty: Bug AU

[platycryptus]

click beetles are truly romantic creatures 😍

#alaus oculatus #eyed elater #click beetle #coleoptera #beetles #elateridae #bugs #bugblr #insects #entomology

[myxomycota]

an Elaterid (click beetle) on Stemonitis splendens (chocolate tube slime mold)

by Richard Tehan

#stemonitis splendens #stemonitis #slime mold #myxomycota #chocolate tube slime mold #richard tehan #elaterid #click beetles #beetles #insects #bugs #forest floor #myxomycology #entomology #ecology #protists #microbiology #macro photography #fungi #mycology #forestcore

[onenicebugperday]

@fluffydogsquad submitted: Flipped over a big stick in my yard and found a bunch of friends. Any idea who the winged friend could be? Also the pal with the long black-and-orange segmented body. Found in New Jersey.

Looks like a gall wasp, I think. Couldn't say which species. The second dude is a rove beetle, maybe Paederus littorarius or similar. The last one is a click beetle, probably a sweet click beetle, Aeolus mellillus. Great group of pals! Always fun to see what's under a rock or stick.

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #wasp #gall wasp #beetle #rove beetle #click beetle #sweet click beetle #Paederus littorarius

[ninthtwilight]

HONEYBEE 🔎🐝

#🐴 art #umineko #erika furudo #bug cw if you click the link #im SO sorry it entirely skipped my mind when id posted this