- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Published on: January 15, 2016
Ah, rain!
It's good for the drought and it's good for the rain beetles.
If you've never seen a rain beetle (genus Pleocoma) no worries. Most people haven't, either. You have to be in the right place at the right time, which amounts to being in a fall or winter rainstorm in their habitat before sunrise or just after sunset. And you have to work quickly. The males can fly only a couple of hours before they die. The females are flightless.
We saw our first--and last--rain beetles back in October of 2012 when a graduate student in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology showed us several that a friend had been collected in the Shenandoah Valley of Plymouth, Amador County.
What intriguing...
Tags: Amador County (1), Arthur Evans (1), James Hogue (1), Pleocoma fimbriata (1), Plymouth (1), rain beetles (2), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (695)
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