Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
{{Short description|Species of beetle}}
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| image = Glischrochilus quadrisignatus (say).jpg
| genus = Glischrochilus
| species = quadrisignatus
| authority = (Say, 1835)
| synonyms = {{Species list
| Glischrochilus canadensis | Brown, 1932
| Glischrochilus sexpustulatus | (Reitter, 1873)
| Glischrochilus similis | (Melsheimer, 1846)
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Glischrochilus quadrisignatus, known generally as four-spotted sap beetle, is a species of sap-feeding beetle in the family Nitidulidae. Other common names include the beer bug and picnic beetle. It is found in North America.
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Four-spotted sap beetles (and other sap beetles) feed on fruits and vegetables that are either damaged, overripe, or decomposing. At times they can also feed on intact fruits and vegetables after first being attracted to and feeding on the damaged or decomposing fruits and vegetables. They often leave deep holes in fruits and vegetables. These look similar to holes made by slugs.
The University of Minnesota Extension program recommends sanitation as the best method for managing sap beetles in a garden. They also say that pesticides are not very effective and they recommend against using them to manage sap beetles. Bait traps may be set out as an alternative management option using overripe fruit or other baits.
References
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| title=Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=835611
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| accessdate=2018-03-31
| archive-date=2018-04-01
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401144643/https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=835611
| url-status=live
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| title=Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Overview
| url=http://eol.org/pages/3219219/overview
| website=Encyclopedia of Life
| accessdate=2018-03-31
| archive-date=2018-04-01
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401144721/http://eol.org/pages/3219219/overview
| url-status=live
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| title=Glischrochilus quadrisignatus species details
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/e3db24e8fd20c8bf6e170749a18dd473
| website=Catalogue of Life
| accessdate=2018-03-31
| archive-date=2018-04-01
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401144520/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/e3db24e8fd20c8bf6e170749a18dd473
| url-status=live
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| title=Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4453163
| website=GBIF
| accessdate=2018-03-31
| archive-date=2018-04-01
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401144732/https://www.gbif.org/species/4453163
| url-status=live
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| title=Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Species Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/9684
| website=BugGuide.net
| accessdate=2018-03-31
| archive-date=2018-04-01
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401144733/https://bugguide.net/node/view/9684
| url-status=live
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book
| editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = R.H. Jr.
| editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = M. C.
| editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = P. E.
| editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. H.
| date = 2002
| title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
| publisher = CRC Press
| isbn = 978-0849309540
}}
- {{Cite book
| last1 = Habeck | first1 = Dale H.
| editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = Ross H. Jr.
| editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = Michael C.
| editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = Paul E.
| editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J.H.
| date = 2002
| title = Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802
| series = American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
| publisher = CRC Press
| pages = 311–315
| isbn = 0-8493-0954-9
}}
- {{Cite book
| last1 = LeConte
| first1 = J.L.
| date = 1861
| title = Classification of the Coleoptera of North America
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732
| series = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| volume = 3
| issue = 136
| isbn = 0665100558
| doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38459
| doi-access = free
| access-date = 2018-04-01
| archive-date = 2019-08-31
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190831234232/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732
| url-status = live
}}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Lord | first1 = Nathan Patrick
| last2 = Hartley | first2 = Christopher S.
| last3 = Lawrence | first3 = John F.
| last4 = McHugh | first4 = Joseph V.
| last5 = Whiting | first5 = Michael
| last6 = Miller | first6 = Kelly
| display-authors = 4
| date = 2010
| title = Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
| journal = Systematic Entomology
| volume = 35
| issue = 4
| pages = 753–763
| issn = 0307-6970
| doi = 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x
| s2cid = 54735522
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- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Price
| first1 = M.B.
| last2 = Young
| first2 = D.K.
| date = 2006
| title = An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)
| url = http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=insectamundi
| journal = Insecta Mundi
| volume = 20
| pages = 69–84
| access-date = 2018-04-01
| archive-date = 2020-12-05
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201205175213/https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=insectamundi
| url-status = live
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = White
| first1 = Richard E.
| date = 1998
| origyear = 1983
| title = A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides)
| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
| isbn = 0395910897
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894
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