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The organic gardening beetle is also known as the eyed click beetle. It has two large false eyespots on its exoskeleton and when it feels threatened; it flips onto its back and clicks its thorax, causing it to jump up into the air a couple of inches. It keeps doing this acrobatic move until it feels safe. Organic gardeners should not fear the eyed click beetle. It poses no harm to humans or their organic gardens.

Instead, the organic gardening beetle is more interested in eating larvae of wireworms. The eyed click beetle spends most of its time in rotted stumps and logs.

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