Darkling Beetle

[supergeeman]

Found it wondering around the kitchen....it had been eating some coloured pencil shaving.....

003 by SuperGeeman, on Flickr

 

[Graham]

Nice find and good detail, Strange name.

 

[supergeeman]

Thanks Graham [emoji106]

 

[sphexx]

Nice find and good detail, Strange name.

If you ’keep’ mealworms you’re impressed by how fast they ‘beetle’ into a dark place when they escape, hence the name

 

[jeff127]

Found it wondering around the kitchen....it had been eating some coloured pencil shaving.....

Ha, I wondered what all the colourful bits were at first. Nice photo, the background adds to it nicely

 

[supergeeman]

Thanks guys... appreciate you taking the time to comment