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Critter On a Flower

By Beet 2025 11 November

 

The Mordellidae are a family of beetles commonly known as “Tumbling
Flower Beetles” for the movements they make when escaping predators.
They are also known as “pintail beetles” due to their abdominal tip,
which helps them perform these tumbling movements. I found this one on
a Western Wallflower.