Beetle With Red Legs

Robust beetles with strong legs.

Beetle with red legs. The red-headed cardinal beetle is bright red with black legs and long black toothed antennae. This handsome black beetle is flightless and can be seen walking along the ground or in low vegetation in April. It has been a popularly documented pest to dried meat and copra or dried coconut since 1925 both as a larva and an adult.

While the Scarce cardinal beetle Schizotus. The name ham beetle was given to them since they were detected on hams in smokehouses. In the rear they have two dark spots.

The white legless larva feed on the roots of these plants. The body is colored a metallic bluish-green and its legs and the first few segments of the antennae are red in color hence its name. The legs and antennae can be withdrawn into grooves on the underside of the body so the whole beetle becomes an oval pill and seems to have no appendages.

The red-legged ham beetle is 4-5 mm long dark metallic blue with reddish legs. Beetles are unique in every insect way and appropriately diverse coming in many varied shapes forms and colors and each can be found in equally diverse environments suiting their particular lifestyles and food requirements. Stag beetles are often very spectacular insects with huge mandibles or pincers which give the insect its common name -- the mandibles on some look like the horns of a stag deer.

It is only found in Oceania and in partsof Hawaii. Common as a pest in museum collections the red - legged ham beetle can cause serious damage to dried protein sources such as residual tissue on bone especially fish palm and coconut materials and has been reported on mummies. The eggs are oval and white in color.

The Red-legged ham beetle of the checkered beetle family can be recognized from its red legs against its greenish-blue body. The lily beetle is a red small beetle with black legs and antennae The scientific name for red lily beetles is Lilioceris lilii and they are a member of the family Chrysomelidae. On warm days they will sometimes all come out to enjoy the warm weather and you will find them all over the place.