Cedar Creek
Ecosystem Science Reserve

Insects of Cedar Creek

Order COLEOPTERA

Family HETEROCERIDAE

(Variegated Mudloving Beetles)

(Table of Species)

Specimens of Heterocerus spp, Variegated Mud-loving Beetles, have been collected at light and the mud of pond/creek edges. A common collecting method is to splash water over their burrows to flush them out. These fossorial species (30 NA spp) are scavengers on organic detritus.

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