Big Bugs

jeffcat · Mar 18, 2015

Moving around some old logs today and look at the size of these buggers! They are almost one and a quarter inches long. That is a AAA battery.

roy prins · Mar 18, 2015

throw that big thing on the table at your local restaurant and call the waitress --I see a free meal or you can throw them to the chickens and eat the chicken -- could be a delicacy at the local chinese restaurant LOL

JerryS · Mar 18, 2015

The old folks around here called them "sawyer beetles". Don't know why. The larva is also impressive---one to two inches long, cream-colored, fat, and juicy, almost big as your pinkie. They get in your firewood and add a nice "Pop" to the fire.

Bob Harvey · Mar 18, 2015

Very tasty with 'Dijon' !

Mike (WA) · Mar 18, 2015

I don't think those suckers run on AAA batteries- get it out of there, or they'll cart it off. They're big enough to burn diesel.

john in la · Mar 18, 2015

That looks like Bess Beetles to me.

DENNIS MIN · Mar 18, 2015

Roy,

Feeding the chickens...I gotta give you merit. Few would think that way.

Yum.

D.

Chris Jones · Mar 18, 2015

I see those bugs a lot in old wood. It looks like John in LA is right. I googled Bess Beetles and this is what I found. Wow, I learned something today.
Bess Beetles Wikipedia

Chris Jones · Mar 18, 2015

Anyone know about this one?
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That's my index finger in front of it as close as I dared put it--looks like it could bite. It was in a parking lot. Sorry it's a crappy cell phone pic.

ObsoElitist · Mar 18, 2015

We get pine sawyer beetles here that can be 4 inches long. They only fly a few times a year, and are part of the reason I wear a full face helmet On my bikes. They seem to be custard filled And can make quite a mess on your face.

2x4 · Mar 18, 2015

Dung beetle

2x4 · Mar 18, 2015

see those all the time & their big larvae. Find both when I split the firewood.

Chris Jones · Mar 18, 2015

In the U.S.? I thought they were Australian. In in North Carolina.

FBH44 · Mar 19, 2015

Very handsome, the New York Yankees of the Beetle world.

JerryS · Mar 19, 2015

Grant's Rhinoceros Beetle

Chris Jones · Mar 19, 2015

And we have a winner! Thanks Jerry!

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