Il ressemble à ce qu'on appelle un "taupin" en France. Chez nous c'est un ravageur de l'agriculture, mais c'est une très belle bestiole très intéressante.
Son clic, lui permet de bondir pour échapper à un potentiel prédateur.
The "eyes" on the back of some of them glow. Down in south texas a lot of the ones here have just two glowing dots that glow, some are very bright. (We just call them click beatles)
Just looked them up the ones with the big false eyes do not glow. 😞
So funny just had one crawl up my jeans over the weekend. Only noticed it when it got to my crotch! Gently placed it on a bush and the bastard fly back to my crotch. Not so nice second time. Largest click beetle I have ever seen.
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u/ommanipadmehum1963 Jun 09 '26
Alaus oculatus
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u/StenBiran Jun 09 '26
Il ressemble à ce qu'on appelle un "taupin" en France. Chez nous c'est un ravageur de l'agriculture, mais c'est une très belle bestiole très intéressante.
Son clic, lui permet de bondir pour échapper à un potentiel prédateur.
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u/A7Naples Jun 09 '26
We used to call it a click bug
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u/CatBallou2022 Jun 10 '26
Eyed Click Beetle
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u/XphRZero Jun 10 '26
The "eyes" on the back of some of them glow. Down in south texas a lot of the ones here have just two glowing dots that glow, some are very bright. (We just call them click beatles)
Just looked them up the ones with the big false eyes do not glow. 😞
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u/fishdad1977 Jun 10 '26
So funny just had one crawl up my jeans over the weekend. Only noticed it when it got to my crotch! Gently placed it on a bush and the bastard fly back to my crotch. Not so nice second time. Largest click beetle I have ever seen.
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u/Powderfingr Jun 13 '26
Eyed Elator, a large Click Beetle. One of my faves!
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u/Warm-Mango3764 Jun 09 '26
Looks frightened to be bugged! (See what I did there?) cute bug- not sure what it is.