Click Beetle (Elateridae) Demonstrating Click Mechanism

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  • @zoyadulzura7490
    @zoyadulzura7490 2 роки тому +55

    I've always wondered what these guys were called! So neat. I saw one in my home today and thought it was a roach at first. What a relief that it was one of these little guys. I put him outside and he ran away.

    • @metheguy4466
      @metheguy4466 Рік тому +9

      fun fact: click beetles are related to the famous fireflies/lightning bugs!

    • @Trashket
      @Trashket 11 місяців тому +2

      @@metheguy4466I just saw one today, since it was a hot day, it wandered inside! I had him in a napkin, trying to put him outside and heard him clicking on the inside! What a cool and cute creature!

  • @isasofia2009
    @isasofia2009 4 роки тому +55

    He looks like he's sneezing

    • @frog_boy_
      @frog_boy_ Рік тому +4

      sneezebeetle is officially an optional alternative name for click beetles in my book!

    • @solveigfrank
      @solveigfrank Місяць тому +1

      hes probably allergic to human

  • @funkylittlespacecowboy2372
    @funkylittlespacecowboy2372 Рік тому +18

    This is a great demonstration of their "click" and how they use it to escape predators (or humans in this case), thank you

  • @razt9776
    @razt9776 2 роки тому +21

    Fascinating, they draw their heads in and create elastic tension against their body. Great video.

  • @EdTheWolf
    @EdTheWolf Місяць тому +1

    When I was a child I found many of those insects, and perhaps because I was born and grew up in a little ranch, I had fun playing with them. Very beautiful childhood, without technology, but happy.

  • @susansoltau7710
    @susansoltau7710 4 роки тому +9

    Beetle is gettng some serious whip lash or really has its headbanging game down!!! That is super neat to watch though.

  • @AmandaBee
    @AmandaBee 4 роки тому +14

    I was trying to let one outside of my house and I thought I had a firm grip on it and it still managed to work its way out of my fingers like that haha

  • @frog_boy_
    @frog_boy_ Рік тому +4

    This is a fascinatiing evolutionary pathway tbh. Love a clickbeetle

    • @snakejuce
      @snakejuce 10 місяців тому +2

      "evolutionary" 🤡

    • @tacitozetticci9308
      @tacitozetticci9308 2 місяці тому

      @@snakejuce nobody believes your crap anymore. Cut it

  • @totallyrealhuman
    @totallyrealhuman 6 років тому +18

    Thanks for filming it! I was wondering why and how do they make that noise haha

    • @raynalefevre2226
      @raynalefevre2226 Рік тому +3

      They have a little thing on the neck. When they want to right themselves up they use that thing on their neck. They hold their neck back a little bit and that thing on thier neck acts like a mouse trap. They spring upward as they click.

  • @barnaclebailey
    @barnaclebailey 5 років тому +5

    Lol I like how it just flipped out of those fingers in the end

  • @alyssabullock6421
    @alyssabullock6421 Місяць тому

    I remember seeing lots of these little things as a kid. I always found them pretty neat and would pick them up, and sometimes I'd feel them clicking in my palm lol
    Unfortunately, one night I woke up to one scratching around in my ear >

  • @raynalefevre2226
    @raynalefevre2226 Рік тому +3

    When they click they spook the heck out of me.

    • @alexislynne1998
      @alexislynne1998 Місяць тому

      Yeah i have one under my shoe scared to lift it he may attack-

  • @biologiacommiguel9806
    @biologiacommiguel9806 5 років тому +2

    Cool!

  • @alexislynne1998
    @alexislynne1998 Місяць тому +1

    I too do that w my ankle btw have one in my house n im fearing

  • @jbmuteboi2381
    @jbmuteboi2381 5 місяців тому

    This thing scared the crap out of me when I was a kid and I tried to squish it on a light bulb it snapped it's head and I felt it and freaked out but I did almost get to squish it it moved too quick though and I burned my palm and finger on the lightbulb

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess Рік тому +1

    I'm here because I identified a small beetle as a click beetle after it ran on my scalp and then fell down the back of my hoodie. UGH.

  • @Just_A_Guy_Here.
    @Just_A_Guy_Here. Рік тому +1

    Speed this video up & add rock music, you'd get a click bug rocking with the music.

  • @tikikara4222
    @tikikara4222 10 днів тому

    Killed one a second ago ago, woke me up with it’s clicking noise, gave me the creeps

  • @mohamedsabeelilislam1823
    @mohamedsabeelilislam1823 6 років тому +2

    Hello sir.

  • @ericleffingwell8617
    @ericleffingwell8617 Рік тому

    What is that figure in the background at the very last second of the video?!

  • @d.a.elliottjr.367
    @d.a.elliottjr.367 4 роки тому +3

    Looks like it's nearly breaking its head off.

  • @Ice_DragonElijah875
    @Ice_DragonElijah875 Рік тому +1

    *WHEN I SAW THIS OUTSIDE I THOUGH IT WAS SOME ROACH!*

  • @JuliaJune96
    @JuliaJune96 Місяць тому

    I just killed one last night..😅

  • @kittypillar6771
    @kittypillar6771 6 років тому +1

    IT'S ALMOST CUTE BUT WHAT THE FUCK