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Beetle larva - Dendroides canadensis

Harms Woods, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
April 8, 2006
Size: ~18mm

Different lighting which shows the setae along the sides.

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Beetle larva - Dendroides canadensis

Beetle larva - Dendroides canadensis

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 April, 2006 - 9:32pm
Last updated 18 January, 2009 - 9:30am

Moved

Moved from Fire-Colored Beetles.

… john and jane balaban, 18 January, 2009 - 9:30am

Pyrochoidae

This long, very flattened shape and long terminal segment are characteristic of the Fire-colored Beetles.

… Jim McClarin, 19 April, 2006 - 9:43pm

Thanks, Jim!

We knew you would know. Now we have to find the adult Fire-colored beetle :-)

… john and jane balaban, 19 April, 2006 - 10:19pm

Put a blister beetle in a pitfall trap

and see if you can lure some male Pyrochroids looking for a cantharidin supply. Either that or rear some larvae. (Feed them termites or ant pupae.) Due to their habits and short lifespan, adults are rarely encountered.

Edit: I was wrong about other subcortical insects being their primary food. Apparently they eat the rotting cambium layer of the bark.

… Jim McClarin, 20 April, 2006 - 6:25pm

elateriform?

im thinking click beetle larvae

… Omar Fahmy, 19 April, 2006 - 9:38pm

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