Bloody Net-winged Beetle
This stunningly red relative of the firefly, the bloody net-winged beetle uses aposematic coloration (warning colors) to its advantage. The bright red and black coloration/pattern is a strong warning to others that might want to eat it that it is toxic to eat and best left alone. This one was photographed just as it landed on a desert shrub below the Chisos Mountains in West Texas, near the Rio Grande River.
- Copyright
- ©2015
- Image Size
- 3467x5200 / 5.6MB
- Keywords
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Chihuahuan Desert, Coleoptera, Endopterygota, Hexapoda, Insecta, Lycidae, Lycus, Lycus sanguineus, Lycus sp., Neoptera, Pterygota, Texas, animal, antennae, aposematic, arthropod, beautiful, beauty, beetle, beetles, biting, black, bloody net-winged beetle, bright, bug, color, critter, desert, fauna, insect, invertebrate, lycids, native, natural, nature, net-winged, red, soft-bodied, southwest, spring, stinger, stinging, warning, wild, wildlife, wing, wings, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
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