Alaus oculatus, the Eyed Click Beetle, is a super-photogenic creature that has been submitted to bugguide numerous times. These are the first images I've seen of a mating pair, however.

I found these two under loose bark of a deciduous snag and placed them into my adult Osmo*derma em*ericola container that also contains Os*moderma eggs. The smell of Osm*oderma eggs must have had an aphrodesiac effect on them. They were coupled when I checked on them last night. I photographed them then and again this morning when they were still coupled.

It occurs to me there is more than one way to get a positive ID on the larval stage of this species. Besides seeing what a larva *becomes,* it is fully as valid to see what a larva *comes from* :-) I have given these two their own container and intend to collect whatever eggs the female lays so I can photograph the hatchlings.