Subject: False Mealworm Beetle, Alobates pennsylvanica

Location: Upshur County, West Virginia

Stock Number: 5-0227 (above), and 5-0224 (below)

Comments: This is among the larger beetles routinely found under bark in the eastern United States—length is typically about 20-22 mm. Often when bark is pulled away, many individuals of this species are present and living in close proximity to each other.

Adults as well as the larvae are predators on other insects.