An eyed click beetle crawls on the bark of a tree in Saginaw. At up to 2 inches long, it is one of the largest known 'click' beetles in the family Elateridae. The huge false eyespots make it ...

At night, two small dots on click beetles' backs glow like a pair of tiny green eyes peering in the dark. Railroad, or glow worms, exhibit a more complex pattern of both green and red lights.

There are thousands of species of click beetles. Some are relatively plain, while others have intricate patterns or glow at night. This wide variation coupled with their unique clicking mechanism ...

Click beetles are one of the most diverse of ... has a tropical species in its collection with phosphorescent eye spots — a glow-in-the-dark ‘back off’ sign that bursts to life when the ...

The bug Compton's parents found has large eyes, long antennas ... He said it is a Click Beetle, which ranges about one to two inches long. It gets its name from the way it moves its exoskeleton ...

Railroad worms get their name from the glowing spots ... noticed only if the click beetle is flying. The Pyrearinus candelarius bugs are dark brown insects with large eyes and yellowish-brown ...

The glow in both those groups of beetles is mostly for sex; they are flashing a "Come-hither My Body is Ready" message. These larvae probably belong to a group of click beetles called Pyrophorini ...

Thanks to researchers in China, the list of bioluminescent click beetle species is now a bit longer. The positioning of the light source varies among glowing click beetles, all of which boast ...

But the glowing also occasionally serves other purposes. For instance, fireflies' blinking is essentially a come-hither signal for potential mates, Pomerantz said. In the case of the click-beetle ...

It turned out that these little glowing worms were actually larvae of a beetle species. Though scientists still don't know the exact species, similar click beetles have been found in Brazil.

At night, two small dots on click beetles' backs glow like a pair of tiny green eyes peering in the dark. Railroad, or glow worms, exhibit a more complex pattern of both green and red lights.