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Giant fucking beetle in between the windows of my room. Couldn't get a better picture, he's stuck in there, with no visible way of getting out. Which sort of worries me, makes me wonder how he got in there. Anyone know what I'm looking at here? More pics coming.
>> Anonymous
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For scale...
>> Anonymous
Okay, and teh other two pics are shit, they're just a big beetle-shaped blur. So much for that idea.
>> Anonymous
so, no beetle experts here?
>> Anonymous
this beetle.. is brown
>> Anonymous
Well if that window doesn't have a hole or can't open or anything, then its possible that beetle burrowed into the wood there when it was a grub, made its pupae either inside of there or near it, then the adult chewed its way out and into that window... maybe 0_o? I've had mealworm beetles make pupae in all sorts of odd places where the adult ends up being unable to escape, stupid things.

As for what it is, maybe a female stag beetle of some kind, but i'm not sure
>> Anonymous
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it just looks like a mealworm beetle, or something closely related
>> Anonymous
The ag dept. put out a report about these beetles being a menace in the Midwest right now.. they're even infesting fast food restaurants. They have very powerful jaws so they will bite hard. Just some kind of ground beetle. They don't chew on houses but they can squeeze into very narrow spaces between boards despite looking like they have a tough carapace.
>> Anonymous
>>283022

midwest is right, i'm in ohio. whatever they're called, that sounds like it. it's completely gone now, i've got no idea where it went.
>> Anonymous
we call 'em June Bugs here in central wisconsin, I think they're female stag beetles, actually. Annoying little fuckers, but they die quickly. DO NOT LET IT BITE YOU IT HURTS LIKE A BITCH AND THEY WILL NOT LET GO.
>> Anonymous
They bite HARD and have a knack for getting into bizarre places. one time one of them got INSIDE of my window AC, buzzed constantly for a week till it died.

Also in wisconsin.
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
Can you get a better picture of it? It's not a june beetle, june beetles are the genus Phyllophaga, which is the Family Scarabaeidae. Only the final three antennal segments of members of this Family are elongated, the bug in the picture has atleast four. My guess is that it's a female Lucanidae, a stag beetle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophaga_(genus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucanidae
>> Anonymous
>>283217

Looked over that second wiki link, and another for Stag Beetles, and I'm thinking Lucanus Cervus, a female. I'll take another picture if I see it again, and I'll try to get it in a jar or something for better observation. It's that darker brown color all over, though, instead of just the wing covers as seen in this pic, and there are no yellow bands, the shell is that uniform brownish tint.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lucanus-cervus-femininum.jpg