The larvae of click beetles are called wireworms. They are segmented, with hard, shiny bodies in shades of brown, tan, or white. Wireworms range in size from 0.5 to 2.5 inches long and have six ...

Wireworms are the larvae of click beetles, ... Click beetle adults aren’t really remarkable or dangerous in any way to gardeners, so they’re generally left to go about their business.

Larvae. Slender brownish worms that reach about 1½" long. Adult. Click beetles are long and skinny with rounded fronts and ends. Depending on the species, they range in size from 1/4" to 1½".

Click beetles are found in grasslands, dry and moist decidous forests, ... on prothorax only or only on abdomen. Males, females, eggs, larvae and, in some species, even the pupae emit light.

At night in the Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna and second-largest biome, larvae of the click beetle Pyrearinus termitilluminans, which live in termite mounds, display green lanterns to capture prey ...

Megan Verlee/CPR News Francisco Garcia, entomology manager at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, notes that click beetles are one of the most diverse families of insects. July 3, 2023. It’s ...

Inside the pupae, the beetle larvae "get rid of a lot of what they have inside [their bodies] and rebuild," Flórez said. At the end of the pupal stage, adult beetles emerge fully formed. Sign up ...