Lined click beetle
The lined click beetle is a slim brownish black beetle with light and dark stripes along its back. Like other click beetles, it can flip itself into the air with a loud click if it lands on its back. Its babies are thin yellowish grubs that live in the soil.
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Fun facts
Its babies are called wireworms, because they are thin and tough like a piece of wire.
Wireworms eat potatoes, corn, strawberries and grain, so farmers try hard to keep them away.
It takes at least three years to grow up, and a baby can change its skin up to 12 times.
It has a twin kind that looks almost the same. Even their babies cannot be told apart.
It arrived in Canada by accident around the year 1900.
Most asked questions about Lined click beetle
?What does the lined click beetle eat?
Its babies, called wireworms, eat roots, potatoes and seeds in the soil.
?How big is the lined click beetle?
It is about 7.5 to 11 millimetres long.
?Why do click beetles click?
If one lands on its back, it snaps its body with a click and jumps into the air to turn over.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agriotes lineatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Elateridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Elateridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Agriotes lineatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Francisco Welter-Schultes. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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