California Broad-necked Darkling Beetle, Rockaway Beach quarry
I was on the hike with my dogs when in the dense vegetated although dry grass I observed a couple of darkling beetles. They are eating decaying and fresh vegetation. This couple was captured during the process of sexual reproduction, female beetle accepted male beetle allowing aedeagus to be inserted into female genital. The process takes two weeks from fertilization to laying of eggs, ( from one hundred to two hundred eggs that are laid by female beetle).
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