Eastern Eyed Click Beetle

Deciduous and mixed forests with plenty of rotting logs, typically across eastern North America.

Adults may eat nectar or plant juices; larvae (wireworms) are predatory, feeding on the larvae of other wood-boring insects inside decaying wood.

Features large, false 'eyespots' on the pronotum to discourage predators. Like other click beetles, it can snap its thorax and abdomen together to produce a 'click' sound and propel itself into the air to escape or right itself.

Harmless to humans. Beneficial to the ecosystem as they help decompose wood and their larvae prey on wood-boring pests likes long-horned beetle larvae.