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What bug is this?

RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
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Set a bag of clothes on my bed and found this a few minutes later. Bag had sat on laundry room floor overnight.

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  • NeurotikaNeurotika Registered User regular
    @Arch @BugBoy

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    That is some form of beetle for sure. Where do you live Royce?

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Might be a click beetle.

    http://www.dpughphoto.com/images/click beetle johnston mill 70211.JPG

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Bliss 101Bliss 101 Registered User regular
    Yeah, I'm guessing some kind of a click beetle too. Did you happen to see it jump (mostly only happens if you poke it or turn it on its back)?

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    Most likely a click beetle, family Elateridae.

    Head is a bit too deflexed (angled downwards) and the antennae in the picture look a bit strange, but my gut says click beetle based on the shape of the thorax and the way it joins to the abdomen.

    Either way its not gonna do any damage to you or your possessions really, which is what most people worry about.

    Unless you farm root vegetables in which case their larvae can be big pests.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    That is some form of beetle for sure. Where do you live Royce?

    South of Seattle near a large greenbelt, several unincorporated regions, and farmland.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    RoyceSraphim wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    That is some form of beetle for sure. Where do you live Royce?

    South of Seattle near a large greenbelt, several unincorporated regions, and farmland.

    Might be a Hatch's Click Beetle then? @Arch

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    I'll cop to not knowing insects deeper than the family level, and a true positive ID that far down would need me to have the beetle in my hand.....and then give it to a taxonomist.

    EDIT: did some research, definitely not a Hatchs click beetle. Those are usually metallic green on the thorax, and more importantly are a threatened species that typically occurs in peat bogs.

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  • mysticjuicermysticjuicer [he/him] I'm a muscle wizard and I cast P U N C HRegistered User regular
    Aegeri wrote: »
    Yeah that's definitely a click beetle. We get huge black ones in our house here in Australia, which when they do their "click" sounds like a fully grown adult clicking their fingers. It can be enormously unsettling when one is throwing a fit behind the fridge in their never ending war against the equally gigantic house spiders here.

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