click beetle in English
noun
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a long, narrow beetle that can spring up with a click as a means of startling predators and escaping. Its larva is the wireworm.
Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles , cause damage in corn fields by feeding on seed prior to and shortly following germination.
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1. Larvae of the click beetle Pyrophorus nyctophanus live in the surface layers of termite mounds in Brazil.
2. Dual tracks of light from luminous spots, one on each side of the thorax, chronicle the movements of a click beetle on a leaf in Jamaica.