#elateroidea

[petsematary1983]

you may be asjking: whats this freaks problem. and to that i say. I dont know

[flighty-flycatcher]

📍 Location: Wake Forest, North Carolina 🗓 Date: May 13, 2025 🐾 Media: Image 🌿 Species: Common Eastern Firefly (Photinus pyralis) 📝 Notes: Bioluminescent beetle commonly found in fields, forest edges, gardens, and moist grassy habitats during warm summer evenings. Adults produce rhythmic yellow-green flashes used for communication and mate attraction, especially around dusk.

Flight is slow and drifting, often low over grass or open ground. Larvae are predatory and live in soil or leaf litter, feeding on soft-bodied invertebrates such as snails and worms.

🔗 iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/280868917

[ljsbugblog]

dramatic

[rattyexplores]

Unidentified Net-winged beetle.

Lycidae

23/05/22

[animalids]

Trilobite beetle (Platerodrilus)

Photo by Melvyn Yeo

[dendroica]

Black Firefly, Lucidota atra (by me)

[ljsbugblog]

Various C. flavipennis individuals, getting busy in the warmer weather.

No common name, multiple individuals (Chauliognathus flavipennis).

[ljsbugblog]

more beetle flight, this time some kind of click beetle(?).

Pasture Wireworm (Conoderus exsul).