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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae) » Chauliognathinae » Chauliognathini » Chauliognathus » Goldenrod Soldier Beetle (Chauliognathus pensylvanicus)
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Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus - male - female
Copyright © 2006 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus - Male Female
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
September 10, 2006
My question is this.
These beetles are all over my frostweed. This may seem like a naive question but where did they all come from? Was there a mass hatching or did they all come as individuals from different directions attracted by the plant or their own scent?
Also will they lay their eggs on the host plant?
I would like to photograph the eggs and the hatching.
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 10 September, 2006 - 2:48pm
Last updated 10 September, 2006 - 9:02pm

Goldenrod Soldier Beetles
think they are Goldenrod Soldier Beetles... i have found a lot of them at my home in central Missouri...
… Andrew Meeds, 10 September, 2006 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Goldenrod Soldier Beetles
Thanks for the confirmation Andrew.
I just read in the Guide that the eggs are deposited in the soil or leaf litter and the young come out in the spring.
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