This was one of a few small beetles clinging to my mo*th sheet this wet morning at 4:45. The battery powering my UV light was dead, so there had been no UV light for awhile, plus the fairly steady rain had kept the visitor load light.

I wasn't sure this one was a beetle till I got my lens focused on it. It was able to walk right up the Insect-a-Slip-coated sides of the deli container in my light arena and was an active flyer. Its movements and the very pale long legs and the red head at first looked more like those of some sort of fly. Its bristly appearance, short clubbed antennae, and its flexibility all reminded me of a clerid, however, and I was able to find a logical close relative in the guide.