Phyllophaga cribrosa

[livingplanet3]

Flightless May beetle (Phyllophaga cribrosa) -

beetlesinthebush.com/2013/08/21/an-interesting-flightless-may-beetle/

I found several of these here at my place a little over 40 years ago, and after that, I never saw one again. I wonder why they disappeared? Maybe the overall climate here became a bit too wet for them, in the years following the late 1970s?

[58chevy]

I used to find those frequently when I was a kid in Ft. Worth, TX. They weren't in any of my field guides at the time, so I just called them tar beetles because they often got stuck in the tar on the streets on hot summer days. After I left home for college, I didn't see another one for decades. To my surprise, I came across some of them in Oct. 2018 near Three Rivers, TX. I still didn't know what they were, but a collector friend ID'd them for me.