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A Big-headed Ground Beetle with a mealworm, which it would later eat. They're willing to eat a variety of invertebrates. Scarites subterraneus , known generally as the big-headed ground beetle or (tunneling large) pedunculate ground beetle , is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae .
It is a long-bodied, black beetle. At about 20–32 mm (13 ⁄ 16 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in), [12] [13] it is one of the larger British beetles. Its wing covers are short, covering only its thorax, exposing the abdominal segments. The abdominal musculature is powerful and the abdominal segments are covered with sclerotized plates.
Monochamus scutellatus, commonly known as the white-spotted sawyer or spruce sawyer or spruce bug or a hair-eater, [1] is a common wood-boring beetle found throughout North America. [2] It is a species native to North America.
Monochamus is a genus of longhorn beetles found throughout the world. They are commonly known as sawyer beetles or sawyers, as their larvae bore into dead or dying trees, especially conifers [1] such as pines. They are the type genus of the Monochamini, a tribe in the huge long-horned beetle subfamily Lamiinae, but typically included in the ...
Heteronychus arator (hetero+onychus = 'variable claw', arator = 'ploughman') is a species of beetle in the subfamily Dynastinae (the rhinoceros beetles). It is commonly called African black beetle or black lawn beetle. [1] It is native to Africa and it is an introduced species in Australia, Norfolk Island and the North Island of New Zealand. [2]
Eleodes (commonly known as pinacate beetles or desert stink beetles) is a genus of darkling beetles, in the family Tenebrionidae. [1] They are endemic to western North America ranging from southern Canada to central Mexico with many species found along the Mexico-United States border . [ 2 ]
Beetles have mouthparts like those of grasshoppers. The mandibles appear as large pincers on the front of some beetles. The mandibles are a pair of hard, often tooth-like structures that move horizontally to grasp, crush, or cut food or enemies (see defence, below). Two pairs of finger-like appendages, the maxillary and labial palpi, are found ...
Pterostichus madidus, commonly known as the black clock beetle, is a species of ground beetle native to Europe. [1] [2] The black clock beetle typically grows between 14–20mm in length, and is black in colouration, with legs that are usually red, reddish brown, or black. It can be found most abundantly in summer, and breeds during the autumn.