#checkered beetles

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Have you seen the handsome yucca beetle (Enoclerus spinolae)?

I have now

Yes, in photos/videos

Yes, irl

I'm not sure

Voting ended onSep 6, 2025

I've spent the last few minutes fawning over this cute little guy. Amazing choice.

[box-of-critters]

A very rude Red-Bellied Clerid who decided my face (and sunglasses) was a good place to land.

Yea my glasses are real fuckin dusty this was from my third day out on my camping trip.

Date Taken: 28 June 2025, 12:53

[jupiterswasphouse]

^ I almost thought this was a member of the velvet ant family (mutillidae) until I got a better look and discovered it was, in fact, a beetle!! Specifically, this little guy is an orange-banded checkered beetle (Cleridae)!

Here's a couple velvet ants for comparison!:

There are a couple more it looks even more like around here but these are a couple good examples!

[somuchscience]

Enoclerus eximius, a Checkered Beetle (Cleridae)

University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 5/20/2013 Photo by Robert Niese

Predaceous and aggressive! Very charismatic little beetles.