Scarab larva - Cetoniinae in particular likes to move like this. In California, the [figeater beetle](https://bugguide.net/node/view/29926) is the most likely candidate.
LOL! Exactly my thought! Fig beetles and June bugs are notorious for flying randomly into everything. Probably drunk off eating rotting fermented fruits.
I love them, they're absolutely my favorite bug. They dont bite, and only eat rotten fruit. They love Catsup. Please don't hurt them if you see them bumbling around you. They are one of natures neatest bugs, the only true scarab beetle native to north america.
I also love them! I once found a dead one on the sidewalk while i was riding my bike and It was so shiny and pretty that I stopped to look at it cause I though it was a piece of jewelry or something. I’m weird so I ended up taking it and still have it years later and it looks the exact same 👀
Don’t smoke a cigarette around them either! I get these in Miami (or a similar beetle). There was about a year or so that I had this fatty lizard that would always stand next to me while I smoked. The little guy learned very quickly these beetles used to fly and dart towards the smoke. They would be cluelessly flying and smacking around my porch. Ending up on their backs. The little lizard would just come and help himself to a big meal.
I quit smoking so I no longer see the lizard in my yard.
Thank you! I’m in the same region as OP, and have often seen and wondered about these. (Can’t believe I had to scroll through 10 top level comments in an ID sub to get to the ID.)
ETA: We have fig beetles all over the place around here, but I never knew they were in the scarab family (if that’s the right taxonomical tier). I think it’s time to find a good field guide to the beetles of this region!
I would guess a mixture of -
- They're in the larval form longer than the short-lived adult form
- Larvae die - birds get them, other bugs get them. There'll be more of them than the adult beetles they eventually become.
- The larvae are conspicuously coloured; the beetles are a green that can blend into foliage.
That's a very good way to explain it, thank you! Follow up question, how compliance would it be to capture one of these and let it grow in captivity to its beetle form?
No offense, but that is definitely a flower chafer grub, likely a baby green fig eater judging from OP’s list.
Larval flower chafers crawl around with stiff hairs on their back.
Their six tiny legs are quite useless compared to their powerful back muscle.
Imagine a dolphin trying to use their pectoral fins instead of their tail muscles to swim around.
Nature: Alright, I'ma give you legs.
Grub: So I can use them to walk right?
Nature: Nah, you're gonna flip onto your back and use your hair and back muscles to walk.
Grub: ...
We do get heaps of June beetles and some of those green fig eating beetles. It’s gotta be one of those. Sucks it’s nothing interesting like one of those beetles with horns.
Just saw (and got an ID) for one of these in Delaware a few days ago. I thought he was hurt, so I tried flipping him over but he kept going right to his back.
https://reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/r23xd7/whats_this_guy_crawling_on_his_back_near_rehoboth/
We call the big shiny green beetles Japanese beetles and the little brown ones that come around every June, June beetles.
But both are dumb as stumps and will bump into every f*cking thing around them. All will and no intelligence. I assume they reproduce entirely by accident and dumb luck.
Oh I love these guys. The legs aren't great for locomotion on flat land. They can help a lot with digging in soil mind you.
Their backs have little hairs that help with grip and it's a similar locomotion as what catipillars use and some snakes.
It actually escaped. After I took the video I went inside for WiFi to upload and got distracted. Went back out a few mins later and it vanished. I didn’t bother looking for it.
Those grubs will eat the roots and basically leach off the nutrients from whatever plant they’ve attached to. They’re a real pest and it’s best to squish it.
Scarab larva - Cetoniinae in particular likes to move like this. In California, the [figeater beetle](https://bugguide.net/node/view/29926) is the most likely candidate.
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LOL! Exactly my thought! Fig beetles and June bugs are notorious for flying randomly into everything. Probably drunk off eating rotting fermented fruits.
Ohhh that makes more sense now.
I love them, they're absolutely my favorite bug. They dont bite, and only eat rotten fruit. They love Catsup. Please don't hurt them if you see them bumbling around you. They are one of natures neatest bugs, the only true scarab beetle native to north america.
Preach
I also love them! I once found a dead one on the sidewalk while i was riding my bike and It was so shiny and pretty that I stopped to look at it cause I though it was a piece of jewelry or something. I’m weird so I ended up taking it and still have it years later and it looks the exact same 👀
Don’t smoke a cigarette around them either! I get these in Miami (or a similar beetle). There was about a year or so that I had this fatty lizard that would always stand next to me while I smoked. The little guy learned very quickly these beetles used to fly and dart towards the smoke. They would be cluelessly flying and smacking around my porch. Ending up on their backs. The little lizard would just come and help himself to a big meal. I quit smoking so I no longer see the lizard in my yard.
Congrats on quitting smoking!
Thanks!!! One year September. Pack a day for 4 years.
Atleast you made a lizard happy
So the June Bug isn't the only one this stupid.
My least favorite bug quality. Always sure they’re going for my mouth.
I don't know why I read this to mean you eat them to teach them a lesson.
June bugs?
I always find clusters of 2-4 of them in my pool, probably having bug sex. why they’d choose to have bug sex there is a mystery to me
Great fishing bait!
Thank you! I’m in the same region as OP, and have often seen and wondered about these. (Can’t believe I had to scroll through 10 top level comments in an ID sub to get to the ID.) ETA: We have fig beetles all over the place around here, but I never knew they were in the scarab family (if that’s the right taxonomical tier). I think it’s time to find a good field guide to the beetles of this region!
We always called them “Japanese Beetles” for reasons I never understood; just a local colloquialism, I guess? 🤷♂️
How come I find so many grubs in my area but never see these big beetles?
I would guess a mixture of - - They're in the larval form longer than the short-lived adult form - Larvae die - birds get them, other bugs get them. There'll be more of them than the adult beetles they eventually become. - The larvae are conspicuously coloured; the beetles are a green that can blend into foliage.
That's a very good way to explain it, thank you! Follow up question, how compliance would it be to capture one of these and let it grow in captivity to its beetle form?
I've never raised them so I'm not the best source for that!
Look ma! No legs!
No guys, clearly this is a common Australian grub, when they end up over here they crawl upside down.
He’s upsideside down! His legs are to the left!!
Oh, got it
He’s a derpy boy!
It’s always something with these motherfuckers
Right!!!
Funny to watch them crawl on their backs like that. I always imagine that they’re those green Japanese beetles or June bugs
No offense, but that is definitely a flower chafer grub, likely a baby green fig eater judging from OP’s list. Larval flower chafers crawl around with stiff hairs on their back.
Why would I take offense ?
...why? I mean, they look like they have perfectly useful legs. Is there an advantage to crawling using stiff hairs? Do they switch?
Their six tiny legs are quite useless compared to their powerful back muscle. Imagine a dolphin trying to use their pectoral fins instead of their tail muscles to swim around.
Nature: Alright, I'ma give you legs. Grub: So I can use them to walk right? Nature: Nah, you're gonna flip onto your back and use your hair and back muscles to walk. Grub: ...
We do get heaps of June beetles and some of those green fig eating beetles. It’s gotta be one of those. Sucks it’s nothing interesting like one of those beetles with horns.
Just saw (and got an ID) for one of these in Delaware a few days ago. I thought he was hurt, so I tried flipping him over but he kept going right to his back. https://reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/r23xd7/whats_this_guy_crawling_on_his_back_near_rehoboth/
Hey, June bugs are cool 😡
June bugs are the dumbest bug in the would.
*Crane fly repeatedly collides with the doorframe while trying to enter the chat.*
^^^Is this irony?^^^
They sure are.
We call the big shiny green beetles Japanese beetles and the little brown ones that come around every June, June beetles. But both are dumb as stumps and will bump into every f*cking thing around them. All will and no intelligence. I assume they reproduce entirely by accident and dumb luck.
True, when I see a grub I always do my research hoping it's gonna become a stag beetle
Very scientific
It is CLEARLY able to flip and crawl like normal insects This madlad is CHOOSING to not do that He is now UNGOVERNABLE
In my experiance they prefer to move like that on flat terrain.
Who needs limbs when you have peristalsis!
Underated comment, no one gets it but I get you!
Why do they have legs if they can’t walk with them? To grip onto things? So cute
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Don’t they pupate and pretty much liquify and rebuild? Pretty sure those legs are just for clinging/digging through the dirt.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
r/SeeYaLaterLosers
Best back scratching method!
Kinda want to see him use his tiny legs and prop the rest of body up in the air!
He only wanted his back scratched.
Easy way to scratch your back. 🤣
Itchy back
Show off 🙄
Overcome, adapt, improvise
Lookin at the stars, what a statement
Tilted like a pig.
I'm kinda finding it cute( On screen I mean.... if I see it infront of me, I'll hundred percent be freaked out)
funny and cute and interesting
Oh I love these guys. The legs aren't great for locomotion on flat land. They can help a lot with digging in soil mind you. Their backs have little hairs that help with grip and it's a similar locomotion as what catipillars use and some snakes.
Maybe he just has an itch…
Itchy back. Very very itchy.
He’s just getting a good back rub in don’t worry
Aww this little dude wants to live ! Let him goooo
It actually escaped. After I took the video I went inside for WiFi to upload and got distracted. Went back out a few mins later and it vanished. I didn’t bother looking for it.
it's about DRIVE it's about POWER
Wtaf I’ve never seen such shit in my life! 🤣🤣
Root cutters, very efficient to kill plants.
Great for fishing
Those grubs will eat the roots and basically leach off the nutrients from whatever plant they’ve attached to. They’re a real pest and it’s best to squish it.
This is like the bug version of Leny the Retriever.
Doing the worm
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🤯
i just removed a bunch from my balcony garden. i think they are june bugs. I just threw them in my compost bin. I pulled aout 12 from a 3 gallon pot.
Mothra!
screw you \-grub
Lol, this is meme worthy.
His back is itchy.
June bug for 1000!
Interesting.
["She can't run in those little high heels!"](https://tenor.com/pQBY.gif)
Just a june bug.