What is That?
Unexpected discoveries are the best! The woodlands often hold surprises for me, and coming across this eyed click beetle is certainly one of them.
What an example of mimicry! Mimicry, a defense mechanism, is when one organism looks or acts like an object or another organism to deter predators. Although it appears to have two large eyes, they are only markings. They certainly fooled me at first glance! The real eyes are much smaller and rest behind the antennae. It’s clown like image just makes me laugh!
When threatened, the beetle will make a clicking sound and flip over to frighten off predators. Now that I would like to see!
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