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Omorgus texanus
A species of hide beetle found in Texas and Mexico.
image by Gerson Herrera
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Omorgus texanus
A species of hide beetle found in Texas and Mexico.
image by Gerson Herrera
Hide beetles (Trox sp.) eating a mummified lizard By: Clifford S. Crawford From: Biology of Desert Invertebrates 1981
Bug Brawl
Round 1, Poll 1
Sabethes cyaneus
Hide Beetle/Dermestes maculatus
Why you should vote for them:
Sabethes cyaneus
I mean look at this fancy fellow
Hide Beetle
they are key decomposers as they eat flesh from dead animals, and are really useful in cleaning specimens for taxidermy. also i think they're just cute. i love their little white specks
@skull-hoarder submitted: Hello! Excuse me, are these dermestid beetles?
My boyfriend wants to start a colony of dermestids and because of the distance we are I can't give him some of mine so a friend of his told him that he had in his colony of cockroaches and here they are, the only issue is that they look a little different mine and they say that they eat the bran substrate that they put on the cockroaches, is it a misunderstanding or are these bugs rare dermestid that eat bran?
Or are they another type of insect that looks like dermestid or can dermestid actually eat bran?
Anyway, location Veracruz, Mexico
They are dermestids! They look like hide beetles, Dermestes maculatus, to me. I know that some people also keep lesser mealworms in with their roaches, and those will eat bran, but I wouldn't think these guys would. So maybe that person was mixing them up? Dermestids generally eat animal products, so they'd eat dead roaches and molts.
#1654 - Dermestid larva
Another of Chuen Man Chang’s fabulous discoveries - this one was under bark.
Andras Szito, a coleopterist based here in Perth, commented -
“Under high magnification probably you can see that the setae (hairs) look like barbed spear. (There are quite a lot with simple hairs). Many of the native Hide beetles living in spider's "nests" and I believe the setae serving to keep the homeowner's fangs away. Since almost all Dermestids (as far as we know) feeding on dry material of animal origin they find enough food in a spider's nest in the form of insect carcasses. Sorry for being so vague but we know little of the native Dermestid fauna.”
Bug Brawl
SUDDEN DEATH (tiebreaker)
Sabethes cyaneus
Hide Beetle/Dermestes maculatus
Why you should vote for them:
Sabethes cyaneus
I mean look at this fancy fellow
Hide Beetle
they are key decomposers as they eat flesh from dead animals, and are really useful in cleaning specimens for taxidermy. also i think they're just cute. i love their little white specks
Beloved hide beetle, please tell me what ur thinking about.
Ask The Entomologist: What's this bug in my breakfast?
Ask The Entomologist: What’s this bug in my breakfast?
“This guy and its buddy were both about 5 mm (1/5 inch) long, in my Malt-O-Meal.” Excellent question, and an attractive little fellow it is. This furry worm-like beastie is a larder beetle larva, a member of family Dermestidae. If you’ve ever watched a criminal mystery program on television, you’ve probably seen these insects’ relatives make an appearance with forensic entomologists. Dermestid…
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