Look what I found in our yard. I had never seen one before (a mystery!), so it took me a few minutes to find it on the Internet. I started out searching for “black and white caterpillars” but that wasn’t even close. Next I tried “black and white insects in central Texas.” Turns out there are a ton of those. The last one did the trick: “black and white insects with eyes on top.” And voilà! An Eyed Click Beetle. I’m glad it didn’t do its click and back flip while I was photographing it. And, of course, those aren’t eyes on top.
An Eyed Click Beetle
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Great photograph. What kind of camera do you use? Interesting little bug too. Insects with “eyes” like that usually have them as a defense mechanism. I don’t think I would eat anything that looked like this if I were a bird.
Thanks! For this photo I used a Nikon D5300 with a 40mm lens. (Most of my photographs I take with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS25 point-and-shoot camera.) I cropped the photo to get the beetle in the center and larger. When I read up on the beetle, I was sure glad it didn’t feel threatened by me and start its defensive maneuvers (click and flip). Yikes!
Yeah, I think that would have freaked me out. I don’t do too well with bug type things.
Got that right!