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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Pyrota » Red-margined Blister Beetle (Pyrota tenuicostatis)
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Meloidae Pyrota tenuicostatus - Pyrota tenuicostatis
Copyright © 2006 Lee Elliott

Meloidae Pyrota tenuicostatus - Pyrota tenuicostatis
Goliad County, Texas, USA
June 6, 2005
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Contributed by Lee Elliott on 13 November, 2006 - 12:12am
Last updated 10 March, 2007 - 4:50pm

Aggregations of P tenuicostatis
In Zapata county 6-2018 aggregation of "hundreds" of these beetles seen on a light post and around a birdhouse. Not sure if they were attracted to lights necessarily in this case.
… Michael Merchant, 14 June, 2018 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

 
Probably right to be unsure
I would guess that the lights were immaterial. When I've seen big aggregations of the species, they were around flowering trees, and in broad daylight. They most likely are drawn together by pheromones or other mating signals rather than by lights. Your light post and birdhouse were probably just convenient gathering places that kept them well above the ground, away from many predators.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 15 June, 2018 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pyrota.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 10 March, 2007 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

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