 Dendroides canadensis ♂. | I really like this photo because it shows the interesting eyes of Dendroides canadensis. The length of these night-active fire-colored beetles varies from 7 to 16 mm. The genus has six different species in the US. The second link is a paper reporting that "larvae of the beetle Dendroides canadensis produce a family of 13 antifreeze proteins" that enhance one another's activities.
Click here for a higher resolution version of the photo. bug guide (this photo): https://bugguide.net/node/view/1450148 L. Wang, J. G. Duman, Biochem. 44, 10305, 2005: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi050728y |
