Maybe off-topic: mystery bug

Zimmer · Sep 3, 2007

Is there an entymologist in the house?

Located in NH north of the Notch, outdoors in leaves; found rustling around after dark.

Anyone have any clue what this is? It's about 1 1/2" long. Almost looks cockroachish, but antennae are very short.

audrey · Sep 4, 2007

The Audubon Insects & Spiders guide doesn't show an exact match. The closest in shape I could find is a May beetle, which is one of many "June beetle" Phyllophaga species. It is described as having a buzzing flight.

Zimmer · Sep 4, 2007

Thanks. It didn't fly at all when I was watching it. What sort of scared me is that except for the antennae, it almost looked more like a few of the cockroach varieties than the beetles! It was sort of close to our house and if it's a roach, I'd be inclined to relocate it far, far away.

sleeping bear · Sep 4, 2007

Yeah, that's a June Beetle. I don't think that's the scientific name...
They are all over here in the summer. They're about the clumsiest bug you'll ever see. My brother used to put them in my bed when I was a little kid. I don't really like them.

Zimmer · Sep 4, 2007

Thanks! I didn't realize that June bugs could be so brown, and hadn't seen one with the lighter markings around the margin of the body. I think of June beetles as being black like this one:

http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/natural/insects/bugsfaq/junebeet.htm

Rick · Sep 4, 2007

Absolutely not a roach of any strain. I spent too many years killing them to know

una_dogger · Sep 4, 2007

They are noisy buggers and they seem to have an affinity for getting tangled up in the hair of blonde, female hikers. Or so has been my experience!

Ick!

DrewKnight · Sep 5, 2007

Don't think it's a June bug... no pincers...

This fellow lacks the wicked-looking pincers I am accustomed to seeing on your classic June bug... I saw something just like this (but I would have said smaller than 1.5 inches) right at the trailhead for Welch-Dickey on Sunday afternoon.

OK, so now that I have attempted to refute the ID... I haven't got anything better. Sorry...

sweeper · Sep 5, 2007

American Cockroach

nartreb · Sep 6, 2007

while we're on the topic of insect ID, anybody recognize these?

tiny triceratops (maybe 1cm long)

Charlie Brown

Zimmer · Sep 6, 2007

The first one looks like a horned fungus beetle. The second one looks like a carrion beetle.

audrey · Sep 6, 2007

JJHikes said:
The first one looks like a horned fungus beetle. The second one looks like a carrion beetle.

I agree on the first. I think the second is a marginated burying beetle (Nicrophorus marginatus) - they bury dead animals and lay their eggs on them. Ewwww!

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