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Eleodes (commonly known as pinacate beetles or desert stink beetles) is a genus of darkling beetles, in the family Tenebrionidae. [1] They are endemic to western North America ranging from southern Canada to central Mexico with many species found along the Mexico-United States border. [2] Some species have been introduced to Colombia.
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, ... are well known as "pinacate beetles" or "desert stink beetles".
The scientists developed a teensy-tiny black-and-white camera that can comfortably be mounted on a live beetle—specifically a death-feigning beetle and a Pinacate beetle.
The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a popular genetics model organism, especially in studies of intragenomic conflict and population ecology. Several species of Tenebrio and Tribolium , such as the confused flour beetle ( T. confusum ) and T. destructor , and other genera such as Gnathocerus cornutus , are pests of cereal and flour ...
Pinacate beetle also known as the stink beetle or acrobat beetle; Pinacate, California, small settlement on the Santa Fe Railroad; Pinacate Mining District in Riverside County, California; Pinacate Peaks are volcanic peaks in northwest Mexico; El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, Mexican biosphere reserve including the ...
The Pinacate Peaks lie just north of the fishing resort of Puerto Peñasco. The tallest of the peaks is Cerro del Pinacate (also called Volcan Santa Clara), with an elevation of 3,904 feet (1,190 m). The Mexican Spanish word pinacate is derived from the Nahuatl word for the endemic desert stink beetle, pinacatl.
In response to the unprecedented spread of bark beetles in the Rocky Mountains and other parts of the western United States, the U.S. Forest Service formed the Western Bark Beetle Research Group (WBBRG) in 2007—a collaboration between scientists from three research stations that pools knowledge and resources to better understand the threat and eventually develop a strategy to combat it. [10]
Pinacate (Mexican Spanish word for the Pinacate beetle), was a small settlement east of the Pinacate Mining District in Riverside County, California. It was established when the California Southern Railroad line was built between Colton and San Diego in 1882.