Checkered Beetle
Trichodes
Insect
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Slender, colorful beetle with striped or spotted blue and red elytra. Active predator of wood-boring beetles and other garden pests; found on flowers and dead wood in Bay Area.
Plants that support Checkered Beetle
5 plants
Chaparral Clarkia
Clarkia affinis
annual
Foliage
Bay Area native
Lindley's Blazing Star
Mentzelia lindleyi
annual
Pollen
Bay Area native
Many-flowered Brodiaea
Dichelostemma multiflorum
geophyte
Larval Host
Bay Area native
Ruby Chalice Clarkia
Clarkia rubicunda
annual
Pollen
Bay Area native
Woolly Mule's Ears's
Wyethia mollis
perennial herb
Pollen