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What is this? [BUG] [SOLVED]

symbolsorsymbolsor Registered User regular
edited June 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
This creature walked in the front door and thoroughly scared the living daylights out of us:
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Any idea what it might be? >_<

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Looks like some kind of beetle to me.

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/60

    Have a browse through there.

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  • symbolsorsymbolsor Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I think this is it:

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/24629/bgpage

    Doesn't look harmful or anything, I think we just killed an innocent beetle. D:

    Thanks for the link and peace of mind!

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  • FeatherBladeFeatherBlade Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Umm... kind of looks like a cockroach to me.

    Best of luck with that.

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  • spacerobotspacerobot Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    FeatherBlade wrote: »
    Umm... kind of looks like a cockroach to me.

    I would agree.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Those would be mighty weird antennae for a cockroach.

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  • RipsawRipsaw Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    That's a male Madagascar hissing cockroach. Harmless.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I would be amazed if that turned out to be a hissing cockroach.

    For reference: mhcunderneath.jpg

    Also, Madagascar hissing cockroaches are (unsurprisingly) native to Madagascar and haven't really spread outside of that area as far as I'm aware.

    edit: It definitely does look like a Palo Verde Root Borer, OP. I wouldn't worry myself about cockroaches at all.

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