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Old 05/20/08, 02:53 PM
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I'd check out http://www.whatsthatbug.com. It might help.


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Old 05/20/08, 03:11 PM
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Short winged blister beetle, aka Oil beetle, aka meloe angusticollis

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/beetles12.html
about half way down the page.
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Old 05/20/08, 03:32 PM
 
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Short winged blister beetle, aka Oil beetle, aka meloe angusticollis

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/beetles12.html
about half way down the page.
Yep, that's the one! Amazing. Here I thought maybe the mad scientists were at work in our neck of the woods.....
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Old 05/20/08, 08:10 PM
 
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Hmmmm....after reading a bit about these, I see that they are European, and that they eat......bee larvae. Interesting.
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Old 05/20/08, 08:17 PM
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Yes, these things are much bigger than blister beetles, and they don't eat wood like powderposts. They are breeding now, and it says that b. beetles breed in late summer.
Here's another photo.Need help identifying freaky insect! - Countryside Families

Is that a picture of that "thing" in your house??? On the table??? Eeeek!
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Old 05/20/08, 08:55 PM
 
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EWWWWWWWWWWW
I wonder if that's what's eating all the honey bees?
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Old 05/20/08, 10:38 PM
 
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EWWWWWWWWWWW
I wonder if that's what's eating all the honey bees?
Well, it's definitely eating some of them, I guess!

Yep, it's in the house, but on dd's schooldesk, not the table.
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Old 05/21/08, 07:33 AM
 
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Ok, you can just be keeping those things up in Washington! Yikes, if they eat bee larvae, we're in trouble. Wonder what eats or kills THEM? Jan in Co
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