[tn-bird] Re: 4 warbler morning
- From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:35:38 -0400 (EDT)
Aren't Boxelder Bugs true bugs? Black and red, gather in
swarms, overwinter en masse?
These guys are soft-winged beetles, almost certainly some
variety of lightning bug but they don't appear to have a
light... doesn't mean they don't have one, just that they
don't have the obvious yellow-green hind end and I've never
seen them flash, just fly around and land on the windows and
such. They're considerably bigger than the normal fireflies.
Otherwise they appear identical to your everyday lightning bug.
Same headshield pattern and everything.
I know that there are some parasitic (actually canabalistic
or just simply carnivorous but I've always heard them
inappropriately called parasitic) species of lightning bug
that lure males of other species in by simulating the flashing
pattern of receptive females. Maybe this is one of those
(they're supposedly larger) but I'm not sure where their
light is.
I'll try to get a picture of one and post it on the website.
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
kde@xxxxxxx
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Mapstone wrote:
> Your critters might be box elder bugs.
>
> K.T. Mapstone
> Lee County, MS
>
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