Green Click - _TNY_3243
Click beetles, the family Elateridae, are cool. They have a spine on the prosternum can be snapped into a corresponding notch on the mesosternum which produces a pretty violent "click" that can bounce the beetle into the air - useful both to flip oneself over if you end up on your back, but also to bounce away from a predator.
This shiny green one is a female Selatosomus aeneus (no English vernacular name) and is climbing on a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) in my mother-in-law's garden.
A shot of the same little lady on my finger in front of an intensly pink flower here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51902699195/
Green Click - _TNY_3243
Click beetles, the family Elateridae, are cool. They have a spine on the prosternum can be snapped into a corresponding notch on the mesosternum which produces a pretty violent "click" that can bounce the beetle into the air - useful both to flip oneself over if you end up on your back, but also to bounce away from a predator.
This shiny green one is a female Selatosomus aeneus (no English vernacular name) and is climbing on a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) in my mother-in-law's garden.
A shot of the same little lady on my finger in front of an intensly pink flower here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51902699195/