Un Crache-Sang , dans les calanques de Marseille
Philoursmars
Ahhh what a nice beetle! A fun fact about bloody-nosed beetles is that they exude bright red hemolymph (bug blood) by breaking membranes in their mouths as a defensive behavior - the hemolymph apparently tastes very bad to predators. Here’s a nice photo of that:
Photo by Muftillo
Another fun fact is that the larvae are very fat and good:
Photo by Greeney5
Thanks for sharing! As always, submissions don’t count towards the one (1) nice bug per day.
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