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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Carpophilinae » Urophorus » Pineapple Beetle (Urophorus humeralis)
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Honey, look what crawled out of my orange, take 1 - Urophorus humeralis
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hemberger

Honey, look what crawled out of my orange, take 1 - Urophorus humeralis
Santiago Oaks Park, Orange, Orange County, California, USA
October 5, 2006
Size: ~10mm
I turned over several decaying oranges in a grove today and found lots of interesting creatures, mostly beetles.

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Honey, look what crawled out of my orange, take 1 - Urophorus humeralis Honey, look what crawled out of my orange, take 1 - Stelidota Honey, look what crawled out of my orange, take 1
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 5 October, 2006 - 10:39pm
Last updated 3 February, 2011 - 4:08pm

Moved
Moved from Stelidota.
… Ron Hemberger, 24 December, 2009 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

Carpophilus humeralis
The other image has what looks like a Stelidota, but this imaes is C. humeralis.
… Blaine Mathison, 24 December, 2009 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Blaine, for straightening this out.
I've shuffled the images accordingly. Hey, and landed a new species in the process. Thanks again!
… Ron Hemberger, 24 December, 2009 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Carpophilus.
… Ron Hemberger, 3 May, 2009 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sap-feeding Beetles.
… Ron Hemberger, 21 December, 2006 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

genus Carpophilus, probably
.-)
… Boris Büche, 21 December, 2006 - 11:09am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again.
I've been back to that orange grove dozens of times and never found any more rotting fruit filled with insects. Will still keep looking.
… Ron Hemberger, 21 December, 2006 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

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