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Click Beetle? - Ampedus rubricus
Copyright © 2007 Ray Simpson

Click Beetle? - Ampedus rubricus
Stormville, Dutchess County, New York, USA
May 15, 2007
Size: 7mm
This looks like a click beetle with a long neck... haha

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Click Beetle? - Ampedus rubricus Click Beetle? - Ampedus rubricus
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Contributed by Ray Simpson on 16 May, 2007 - 12:45am

Umm....
Click beetle, yes, but I believe its head has been pulled out of its socket...
This looks to be a Red-headed Click Beetle (Ampedus rubricus).
… Stephen Luk, 16 May, 2007 - 12:52am login or register to post comments

 
whoa
I didn't handle it that rough... I just put him in the jar. I wonder how his head got like that? Wasn't me :)
… Ray Simpson, 16 May, 2007 - 12:59am login or register to post comments

 
Drowned?
I find tht insects that have drowned in swimming pools and such often "bloat" like the carcasses of vertebrates, often popping the head out like this.
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 May, 2007 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Alcohol also does this
Alcohol also does this quite commonly.
… Brad Barnd, 16 May, 2007 - 4:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Seen that happen to a few specimens
Once, I put into alcohol a beetle which had failed to eclose. I eventually discovered that an elytron had broken through the pupal skin and even fully expanded, as it would have done so had the beetle emerged naturally.
… Stephen Luk, 16 May, 2007 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Ditto
That would have been quite a pop...
… Stephen Luk, 16 May, 2007 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

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