#clerid

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Bug of the Day

Look at this adorable little Clerid (Cregya oculata)!! Hard to believe he eats longhorned beetles for lunch, but ‘tis true! This species feasts on the larvae of both longhorned beetles and bark beetles.

[drhoz]

#1529 - Blackburniella intricata

A small predatory beetle found in Victoria and SW Australia. This one was in Lakelands, south of Perth, but I’ve found it elsewhere too.

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Bug of the Day

Adorable little checkered beetle, Phyllobaenus pallipennis, from the 2018 Franklin Park BioBlitz.

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Two red bellied clerids hanging out on a log. Perhaps they are lovers?

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A Checkered Beetle. Never seen one like this and wish I could have seen it crawling around. Only a gorgeous exoskeleton when I found it.

(photo by S Suzuki-Martinez)

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#482 - Scrobiger Chequered Beetle

A Clerid Beetle from my porch, and identified by Ken Walker at BowerBird the other day.

Sad to say, he turned up in a spider's larder two night later, so he must have been attracted by the lights again, poor thing.

Wellard, Perth

[drhoz]

Assorted Clerid Beetles. It's entirely likely they're all Eleale sp. They might even be the same species.