If you plant in the garden suddenly cease to bear fruit, or simply die for an unknown reason, then, some pest wound up in your stead.Amateur gardeners faced with this problem, argue that the culprit or larvae of beetles or their parents - click-beetle.This oblong shaped insect has a dark brown color with a metallic luster on the shell.The bottom of the wings has a pointed conical shape, from the suit like a conductor, which gives a certain sophistication and elegance of this species.
Habitats beetles
This type of insect lives wherever natural conditions allow it, except where permafrost.A wide variety of insect species such as click-beetle, are prevalent in South America, Africa, tropical locations.Depending on where they live are changing color and simple pattern on elytra, accompanied by a variety of colorful hues.In nature, there are individuals of different sizes, ranging from small to very large.
distinctive feature
click-beetle has an amazing ability to jump, thus emitting a click of a mechanical shutter.He does this in order to turn your body to its normal position, as by short legs could lose your balance.Length adults is 10 to 20 mm.Insect develops slowly - from 3 to 5 years.
Milestones beetle wireworms
Just as other representatives of the world of insects, early spring beetle beetles (female) lays white eggs (3-5 pcs.) Into the cracks of the soil under the pile of weeds or small lumps under the earth.Such clutches she makes 30 or 40 pieces.A month later, the larvae emerge from the testes.Growing up, they become elongated in shape and very thin.Painting larvae - golden brown with a brilliant hue.The common people, we call them wireworms because of the similarity with copper wire.They prefer to spend the winter in moderately moist and warm soil.In autumn, when the ground is frozen, go into deeper space, and in the spring begin to steal up to the surface.In summer the garden plots become their second home.
Bioluminescence beetles
This concept suggests that some species are able to emit light.Bodies glow beetles under a thin cuticle, and they formed using phytogenic large cells filled with microparticles of uric acid and richly interwoven nerves and trachea.As it enters the oxygen that is needed for oxidation processes.Kukuho - representative of the type of insect that has the highest brightness.It can be used as a night light, and some tribes of Indians hooked this little "light" to his feet when going on a night hunt.
Seeds dark beetle
Seeds dark click-beetle, the photo you see to the right, belongs to the order Coleoptera.It has brown with a grayish tinge and reaches a size of up to 9 mm.This species lives in the mountainous parts of the western regions, as well as in the northern forest.Destroys root vegetables, corn and vegetables.Uniformly colored larvae reach the cylindrical shape of 28 mm.
spends the winter in the soil at depth, reaching up to 80 cm. Leaves from their winter refuge in late May and is on the ground until mid-June.It prefers heavy clay soils.
