Cedar Creek
Ecosystem Science Reserve


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order COLEOPTERA

Family RHIZOPHAGIDAE

(Root-eating Beetles)

Small (1-3 mm), elongate, flattened beetles that are found primarily under bark.  Of the 54 NA species in this family, Minnesota has representatives of Rhizophagus and Herperobaenus.  Not collected at Cedar Creek.


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