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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Glowworm Beetles (Phengodidae) » Phengodini » Phengodes
Photo#49497
Beetle larva? - Phengodes
Copyright © 2006 Machele White

Beetle larva? - Phengodes
Lady Lake, Lake County, Florida, USA
April 26, 2006
Size: 70mm
A Mockingbird was trying to get this, that is how I found it.
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Contributed by Machele White on 26 April, 2006 - 8:33am
Last updated 2 March, 2012 - 1:15pm

Moved
Moved from Glowworm Beetles.
… v belov, 13 September, 2009 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

duplicate comment, deleted
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… Jim McClarin, 26 April, 2006 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

This is a glowworm.
At that size, I'd say it's a GIANT glowworm. It could be an adult female. They look like larvae with a few minor differences. Only the males fly in this family, Phengodidae.
… Jim McClarin, 26 April, 2006 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you,
It was very large, and it actually stretched out to be even larger. I looked at it in my bathroom with the lights out, and kind of jiggled it around, and it deffinately glowed. Thank you again.
… Machele White, 27 April, 2006 - 5:47am login or register to post comments

 
Ha!
I'm *always* looking at beetle larvae in my bathroom. That's where I keep my larval rearing containers and my bug photo studio.
… Jim McClarin, 27 April, 2006 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

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