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   Posted 3 years ago
   Tue Mar 9 2010 20:20:42
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   I know this is not a BB but I am curious as to what it is. Spider Beetle?

   http://img695.imageshack.us/g/img1494x.jpg/

   BB awareness has made me into an amateur entomologist!

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   Posted 3 years ago
   Tue Mar 9 2010 20:41:12
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   Yep spider beetle. Gnarly looking thangs ain't they.

   Jim

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   Posted 3 years ago
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   Thanks.

   Very interesting to watch them walk for some reason.

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   spideyjg - 30 minutes ago  » 
   Yep spider beetle. Gnarly looking thangs ain't they.
   Jim

   Thats def a spider beetle

   Mike S
   Green Apple Pest Management Solutions Inc.

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   Tue Mar 9 2010 22:02:33
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   What is it doing in that last picture? Looks like it's impaling something.

   Very creepy looking...

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   Posted 3 years ago
   Tue Mar 9 2010 22:26:52
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   yikes. looks like a ninja bug. those legs are long.

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   Posted 3 years ago
   Tue Mar 9 2010 22:35:55
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   In the last picture it was just upside down trying to roll back over.

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   They're slow too. And crunchy. Yuck!

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   Posted 3 years ago
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   I've got one for you, definitely not a bb. I found this in the hall closet when I went to check the useless 'traps' I bought. It wasn't in one, of course, but it was upside down with DE all over it's belly. It's about 3/4 inch long, pretty big. Has really long bent legs.

   http://img707.imageshack.us/g/dsc06910j.jpg/

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    Posted 3 years ago
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    Very likely a masked hunter. They eat other bugs and if you trap them they will bite in defense.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masked_hunter

    http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/diaglab/08images/masked%20hunter.JPG

    Jim

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    Posted 3 years ago
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    Thanks, you're totally right! So big and scary! But I guess on my side...

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