This was crawling around outside our house last night:
I have no idea what it was, but it’s the largest beetle I’ve seen in a while. I’m glad I got a photo of it! If you know what it is, leave a comment 
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I found one like that except it was more reddish orange without the antennas that large in selah and I cant find anything about it, it was hissing at me so i killed it in a hurry, and forgot to take a picture.
Oh, yes. I squashed one huge one last night. Tonight there was another in the carport. This time I captured it and am trying to find out more about them. My two daughters love bugs and want to know everything they can about them. Melissa, Athens,GA
When I first moved to Vegas, there were A LOT of these beetles, who buried around tree trunks. A mean, so many, it was common for one to fly onto you! I never found out what they were.
They are out again, coming out of the ground and lying eggs around the yard. Here in las Vegas, NV
one flew in our window this evening. we all screamed , we have never seen anything that big before. It’s still in the room somewhere! YIKES!!!!!!
The Derobrachus geminatus or the Palo Verde Root Borer has different antenna.
If anyone can help me here, please do.
I was sharing a hotel rooom with my step sister, and all of a sudden a loud noise caught our attention. It was a big black beetle type insect, with a hard back, ( So, no, i don’t think it was a horsefly) And it had a pair of wings.
We managed to get it down with.. or should i say my step sis, managed to get it down, whilst i was screaming!! With deodrant. It fell and i ran to get a glass, whilst she was still spraying it.
we put a glass over it, and we woke in the morning to find it was dead. Please please help me, as i live in england, and this is the weirdest bug yet!!! Thankss alot
-Chloe x
My sister found one of these guys in our pool, dead. She decided it would be funny to prank my other sister and I with it, which was very entertaining. Anyway, after she scared the **** out of my sister, she took it and put it in the bathroom to wait to scare my brother, and then it came back to life and started moving! It doesn’t seem to have much life or energy, but it’s moving its head and pincers and now she’s got it in a kleenex box. After reading some of these stories, I think it’ll escape by morning.
Oh, and by the way, we live in northern Illinois, so I have no idea what it’s doing up here.
Its a Palo Verde Borer beetle. Not a cockroach, or anything else that has been suggested previously, but its still the biggest beetle I’ve ever seen.
omg that is a Palo Verde Beetle! i was walking my dog this morning and he kinda stalled so i got out the door walked down the hall and i had to pull my puppy! the i turned around and my neighbors door it was there on its back and its abdomen was popped open with im guessing light yellow cream colored eggs comming out the eggs wer everywhr,and the worse thing is is that it was alive and moving,mind you that i live in atlanta georgia, that was the first time i have ever seen anything like it
i found a beetle just like it a lot in arizona
We found our cat trying to get one of these in our basement this morning. It was squeeking like a mouse. I made my 9 year old daughter go down and get the cat. I couldn’t just leave her down there!!! Then my daughter decided to go and get some pictures of it. SERIOUSLY GROSS!!!!
it’s a Prionus Beetles. Large beetles that can be as large or larger than your thumb. As grubs these beetles feed on the roots of trees and shrubs. On the web site of Oregon State University bug dept. They come out in the hot weather to cool down out of the dirt.
I live in NJ & just found 2 of these beetles!they were HUGE!
I live in Vegas and I saw one yesterday, with one exception… The one I saw was easily 5 inches long. As an amateur entomologist (lots of fly fishing in Washington State) I was floored, I thought it was a bat none of my reference sites records the species over 2-3 inches. It flew to my swamp cooler and grabbed on and, thinking it was a bat, called the family out to check it out…. Surprise! I’ve seen a lot of oddities, including a Jackrabbit, that in its casual sitting up pose, was about 3 1/2 feet tall, tall enough to look me in the eyes as I was crouched down at an airsoft game which was played at night. The ears added another foot or foot and a half. Gotta love being so close to Yukka Mountain…
Phoenix AZ. I found this bug in my garage and i just moved it away outside, then i found a few more (a few- yikes!) and they were all on their backs flipping around like crazy. So i just put it outside my garage again and a few hours later i went out to the car to get something and there were to 2 dead on the floor! i was surpised this morning when i saw them cause it was the first time. weve never had this problem before! what do? i do i dont want to kill them but they’re KREEPING ME OUT BIG TIME!!
We were camping near Kelowna, BC last week, and a wildfire was burning to the West of us, about 20km away. One of these beetles, plus what we think now was a Ten-Lined Giant Chafer beetle both came flying in toward our Coleman lantern, where we were playing cards after the kids were in bed. The California Prionus beetle sounded like a diesel engine as it flew, and we trapped it on the ground under an upside down drinking cup. It immediately started hissing like crazy and apparently trying to eat its way out of the cup (it was scrabbling around in there something fierce). It was easily moving the cup around, so we put a palm-sized rock on top of the cup. However, the beetle was still able to move the cup, so we progressed to a quite heavy hand-sized rock, but the thing incredibly was still able to move the cup! We finally had to hold the cup down with a brick (and I saw the beetle just barely moving the cup with that on it too, although my husband didn’t believe me). It appeared to be using leverage to move the cup, by wedging a leg under the cup edge and lifting it up and over. The cup was on top of the cement pad the picnic table was on, and the cement had small ripples in it, so it wasn’t completely flat. I couldn’t believe how strong that thing was! It must have been 3 inches long, without the antennae. Having never seen anything like it, we assumed it had flown out of the forest to escape the fire. Amazing!
i live in las vegas and found one of these bugs on my back porch. it was walking and pretty fast! the next day i saw it at the base of a palm tree i have in my front yard. i put a bucket over it and sprayed some bug killer under the bucket. 2 days later my friend and i went out and put it in a large ziplock bag. we’ve been taking pictures of it next to other items to show size comparison. i’ve been told that it is a type of water bug or wood boaring beetle. it has wings, pinchers and large “tenticles” or “antenas” haha probably not the right word but you know, the long things!! our’s is 3 inches long from head to butt, but 3 1/4 inches from “long things” to butt. it is creepy! we named him charlie.
Cherri, there should be more of them becuase if you saw a big one on your deck, then that means that they are trying to find a m8. So yes there should be more if you go out at early evening and turn the porch light on. Happy I could help!
Mary O, I think that you are looking at a long horned beetle.
I know exactly what this is. I spent all morning trying to figure it out. I found it buzzing around my porch at night wiith the light on. They like to havg around the porch light at early evening. Anyway, this is a palo verde beetle. I know that because I looked this up on several websites. thats the exact answer =P
That is a California Prionus Beetle. They feed on stone fruit trees mainly. They mainly are in the western United States.
It is definitely a Palo Verde Beetle. We get them all over the place in Southern Arizona during the Monsoon season. They bite, are able to fly, and are built like a tank. On average they are at least as big as your pinky-finger.
found something simalar in the uk today
except it was mostly green, and the antennae was huge, curved outward, not spikey like antannae in the photo, and very slight fur on its back.
also did that weird hissing sound
found on on our porch last night it hissed and went after my husband. it was huge
Help me. I have never seen this bug before. Beigh in color with 4 identicle white spots on it’s back
It's a paloverde root borer
I just had one on our patio, also in Yuma. When my dog went outside, the beetle raised it rear end up and went after my dog. It looked like a stinger on the end. Its in the glory land
we had the same one on our deck last night! We put it in a jar…what in the heck is it…and are there more????
…I wanna name him Quiggles. ;-;
My boyfriend just found one of these (or something very close to it..but the one that my boyfriend found has a much rounder rump. XD ) on the porch of the trailer that we sleep in.
It sounds like it’d been attracted by the porch light that we’d turned on. After reading through this and looking at the links, the one that I found is the Prionus californicus beetle. The palo verde borer beetle looks similar but isn’t the right one. I’ll wager they come from the same family of beetles though.
Personally, I’d wanted to know if it was dangerous to have/be around which was why I’d kept reading.
Looks like it can bite out of self defense and that it’ll play dead so we’ll ignore it. I feel like putting it in a jar or something but my boyfriend told me I couldn’t keep it. x: Guess I can’t add a bug to my pet collection.
This looks like a longhorn beetle of some variety. there is a major problem with the Asian longhorn beetle which looks like this but is red with white spots. They spread like mad and breed down in the roots of the trees and dead decaying wood matter. I do not beleive they are toxic (poison bite)… but looks like they could hurt you. When I ran into other such large insects I brought them to a local College where I was able to gain knowledge from their free research. Turns out I also had Mexican killer bees living in the walls of my old basement. Be glad they are just beetles and not something deadly that will put your kids into a coma.
WE live in the south part of Salem, in the country, cleaning out the garage we found one of the hudge beetles, I have never seen anything that big ever, I have lived out there for 40 years! It has been really hot though, it sounds like the ones everyone is talking about, last night taking the curtians down there was a dead one in the mix of curtains it was dead and hudge my daughter was with me she screamed and then asked if it was a scoripion? I said no it was the same one I found the other day, They do make noise I think I thought I had crickets but it is not the same noise. Hope this helps seems like their everywhere. Im going to take one in to have it checked find out what it is for sure Will let everyone know when I do.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/74948
My sister sent this link and it looks like the same bug! She lives near the canyon in Salt Lake City, Utah, and says her cats have brought several of these home and left them for her on her stairs – yuck!!
http://bugguide.net/node/view/74948
My sister sent this link and it looks like the same bug! She lives near the canyon in Salt Lake City, Utah.
I found a bug like this today on my ranch in Western Washington State (near Seattle). It was seemingly dead, just lying on the driveway. We thought it was a cockroach, but they aren’t too common around this area. We just went through really hot period, in the low 90’s (that’s hot for our area). I wonder if that’s what brought this bug into the open.
Hello,
Thanks for all of this info. My husband and I saw this same type of bug on our window tonight. We live in Utah but our extended family just left about 5 days ago to go back home to Tucson. Do you think that this could have traveled with them from there via, camping trailer or truck? Has anyone ever seen this beetle in Utah?
Thanks
There are many species of beatles that have similar characteristics of the one in the photo, so they could be confused with the Palo Verde (shown above) depending on where you find them. The larvea live deep in the ground under Palo Verde trees, for up to three years, feeding on the roots. During a wet monsoon year they morph into an adult beatle, emerge from the ground, breed, lay eggs & die. There is no way to get rid of them, because they live to deep in the ground. If they infest a tree, they can kill it. The only thing you can do is water and fertalize, to keep the tree heathy enough to survive the infestation.
i found one last night (philomath oregon) and when i put it in a jar i noticed all these tiny little scorpions climbing out from under its wings. there was a bunch of them. ive spent all morning trying to identify this beetle. ive come up with a few ideas but none are definate. i did find out what the scorpions are though. theyre called “book-scorpions” theyre eating the tiny parasites that live on the beetle i guess….
i found the same bug in my bathtub and it tryed to bite me then i captured it in a cup it started hissing and clicking.
WOW THAT LOKES WIRED!!!!!!!!
I saw somthing like that in our back yar, didnt know what it was but it was huge
That’s Derobrachus geminatus, the Palo Verde root borer beetle. I found one in Las Vegas, NV, just outside Rancho High School.
I was able to catch it easily, because it appeared to be dying. Took me a few weeks to figure out what it was.
I live in Switzerland. Yesterday early evening, sunshine, dinner outside, and a huge type beetle landed on the table near my plate. My husband said, “What the hell is that?” Iridesncent green, huge antennas, six legs, and wanted to go up my glass of wine after it checked out my plate. Well, it did figure out how to get up the glass, after falling off a few times. It went around the glass and worked its way up. Then it smelled the wine, tried to lower itself into the glass by hanging on on one of its six legs. Looked like it got a bit high and then went around the glass, still with the one leg for leverage, to where my lip print was and looked like it fed on that. My husband said it looked like and Alien. I know someone who is into this stuff, so I said as soon as I saw it, “Hi Lance”. He is a CEC which means Chief executive Cook and his Alien friends love Alcohol. Found out today that this creature inhabits the Southern part of California. He now lives in Beverly Hills. A sawyer beetle of sorts so I have read? We had a good laugh and a lot of entertainment last evening, but the creature was highly intellengent, knew what it wanted, and neither one of us have seen such a thing in the past 35 years. Hope someone can give us some insite and/or you have just enjoyed this true story. J.
i have this same kind of beatle in a fish tank at my house. i live in phoenix az
i have those beetles in my yard. they are broad necked root beetles. the so called stinger on back is for laying eggs. 3 to 5 hundred eggs. they feed off the roots of your trees and eventually kill them. three of them stole my dog! im crying right now so please bear with me. if you see my dog he is a yellow lab about50 pounds and answers to the name buddy. please xcall the police. or better yet the army they are big *** bugs. makes the ghetto roaches look like lady bugs. wtf? how do i kill these things? cant see them unless you catch them laying eggs. please help. if you do see my dog he might respond to you with woof! woof! ty
that is a paloverde bettle they are not poisonous but it can bit so whatch out
Does anyone know how to get rid of them? I have about 10 palo verde beetle holes in my backyard in a corner. A new one pops out almost every day, I found out that if you pour water down the holes that pisses them off and they come out with their jaws open…
it isnt a California Prionus or a root boror i found the same thing on my porch last night and if you look at the California Prionus or root boror you can see that their mandabols arent big at all on the picture of this better it is rather big i have about 5 pictures of the same beetle howeveri cant tell you what kind of beetle it is i will keep looking
I have never seen something so huge.
I was taking out the trash with my oldest cat when I felt something hit me.
and the cat was a few feet away.
I jumped up and down and shook. And then I noticed it on my screen door. And then I screamed. lol
It was so big my cat didnt even mess with it. I grabbed the ant and roach spray till it fell over with legs up. I think I used a half a can. Only been here in Las Vegas for 4 weeks we dont have those in Los Angeles. YIKES!!!!!!!!!
Next day it was gone maybe it played dead…
OMG!!!!!!!!MY HUSBEND JUST FOUND ONE LAST NITE .IT SCARED THE HECK OUT OF ME AND THE KIDS.I HAVED LIVED MANY PLACES AND NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.,YES IT IS A PALO VERDE BEETLE.THE JAWS ARE SCARY AS HECK IT LOOKS MEAN TO.WE PUT IT IIN A BUG HOUSE AND IT BEARLY FITS.IM SCARED IT WILL CHEW OUT,AND I SURE DONT WANNA LET IT GO ANYWEAR.MY HUSBAND WENT TO TOUCH IT WITH A GLOVE ON AND IT STARTING CHARGING AT HIM .IT WANTED TO BT HIM IM SURE OF IT.YES HE FOUND IT AFTER THE MONSOON WEATHER. AND WE DONT HAVE ANY TREES IN OUR YARD SO IT MUST HAVE FLOWN IN.TIP IT LOOKS BETWEEN A CROSS OF A GIANT COCKROACH AND A HUGE BEETLE.
Hey everybody… the picture of the bug above is a Palo Verde Root Borer. you will learn every thing you need to know about them if you look up Palo Verde Beetle,….. and if you didnt know you can sell these for 10$ each….
I live in Milton-freewater Oregon and on the 4th of July my daughter found one by my door when she went to open it.What is it ? We have never seen anything like it here.
yup….nasty bugs!! im in yuma,az and they are here to …my other half brought one home from work for me to see…he said he played with them when he was a kid….they would see who could hit the most with a bamboo stick..yuk!! i told him to take it back from where ever he got it i cant stand bugs that fly!!!!!!!
I found one today cats must love these thing because my cat was playing with it too! Its called a california prionus beetle butthere r other types of prionus beetles. I dont know if this thing bites or not but Iam not taking any chances with a mouth like that! yucky!
hello i live in L A and my back yard is infested by those bug, are does the same one that came out on the news?
The best way to get rid of any beatles is to make friends with a Pakistani or East Indian person, and borrow some of his **** roaches, which they seem to harvest in their homes. Beatles won’t stay around with large numbers of **** roaches in the area.
Hi! I’m a biologist from Hungary, and I’m sure, it’s a kind of a longhorn beetle (from Cerambycidae family), but I can’t tell you the exact species name. Longhorn beetles in our country eat dead, decayed trees, they don’t do harm to anyone (except if you catch it, it can bite you for protecting itself) and the largest species like your bug are protected by law.
You should let the authorities know. They’re trying to eliminate these thins from north america
I’m pretty sure Its an asian long horned beatle
PS. we found this thing in july…this is the first bug I’ve found that looks anything like it…
I found a beetle that looks just like this one, it was in my house on my bed! It must have came through the window…this one was about 10 inches long (the body) with the antennas it was almost 2 feet long! I live in canada and I was just wondering if anyone has the least idea what this thing is? …or was lol …I’ve looked all over the internet and I haven’t found any beetles nearly this large…it made a sound like…a moth behind a curtain…that’s what I thought it was at first…noise made by the wings maybe?…I’m really not sure I’ve never seen anything like this….any ideas?
I just found my third one of these things (or something like it) living in a 40 year old barn where I keep my horse here in the SF bay area of California, The horse has some weird bites on his legs too. I really want to know if there is a connection and what is it????
August 7, 2007; 2:29 p.m. from Kelowna, British Columbia.
My neighbour (I am Canadian, hence our spelling with the ‘u’) knocked on my door at about 10:30 last night, saying if anyone knows what the bug on the mat at their front door is, I would….well I didn’t! I was thrilled when I came across this photo a few minutes ago. It looked the same, and I estimated, with antennae that it was about 2 1/2 inches long. We observed that the abdomen was very pubescent with dense, fine beige hairs …. yes we ventured to lift the mat up, and tip the beetle slightly sideways to view it from the side. Interestingly, these neighbours have a very large pine tree adjacent to their house.
I also found some of these Prionus beetles at a lake near Carey, Idaho on July 9th, 2007. They were attracted to a bright security light at the campground, and were gathering by the light of our trailer outside the windows. They also made clicking noises, like other people on this thread.
I found one of these beetles in my hallway and i live in Nottingham, England. My dofg also keeps finding what looks to be larvae of sum bug it has approx 6 tiny little legs, and fine hairs along its body.
lisa: well me and shams were opening a pack of M&Ms n there this big beetle like bug and looked like the one on that picture but had pincers on its bum (ouchhh) what is it?????????????
okay hey guys. umm i am a freshman & for our advanced biology project we have to do an insect collection…. one of the insects that are required is a beetle. now i found one JUST like this one today. and i need to know what it is.how to kill it & preserve it. and its scientific name. can anyone help?
HEY THERE EVERYONE, I LIVE IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA AND I WAS JUST WALKING PAST MY OPENED FRONT DOOR LAST NIGHT AND I SAW THIS LARGE BUG ON IT’S BACK SO I CALLED FOR MY BROTHER TO LOOK AT IT AND HE THOUGHT HE KILLED IT. BUT LOW AND BEHOLD THE NEXT NIGHT IT WAS STILL MOVING AROUND IN A ZIP LOCK FREEZER BAG. I WAS SO INTERESTED TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS WAS THAT I WAS LOOKING ALL OVER THE NET JUST TO SEE IF I COULD GET INFO. WELL THAT’S WHEN I FOUND THIS SIGHT. IT WAS ABOUT NINE-THIRTY AT NIGHT. NOW I DON’T EVEN WANT TO KEEP MY DOOR OPEN ANY LONGER FOR FEAR THAT ANOTHER WILL COME INTO MY HOME. THIS THING IS FREAKY, I THINK WE ALL CAN AGREE ON THIS. JULY 26, 2007 AT 9:30 PM.
My name is Tracy too and I also live in Las Vegas and found a Prionus californicus on my block wall, the cat was too scared to play with it. I took some pics then went to take the camera back in and came out it was gone but the next day I found it again by the door. I captured it and called it Bruno, it is about 4 inches long. Not sure what to do with it but it is so facinating, I can tell they would bite.
My bug guy said it is a roach. Shows you what he knows.
Stay safe.
hi I found that same kind of bug, in my yard needless to say it lives no more.I’m in Warren Ohio
its a california prionus, i just caught one today. atleast two if not three inches long, not counting its antannae
One was in my car and got on my friends foot it was soooooooo gross i hate them, they are ugly!!!!!!!!!
As a kid growing up in Phoenix, I had neighbors down the road that had a stand of about 10 Paloverde trees along the road. We would catch the cicadas, (we called locust), in the trees and tie thread around their heads and fly them like kites during the early evening, as it got darker we would get out our ping pong paddles and wait for the male Burrowing Beetles to come flying in. I cannot tell you how much harmless fun these two insects gave my friends and I during the scorching summer evenings. Believe it or not my friends and I actually spent as much time reading and researching these critters as torturing them. Hopefully this won’t start a thread on entomologist subject abuse.
I live near Yosemite, CA and one of these HUGE beeteley bugs alnost landed in my hair on the front porch early last night. This one almost 3 inches long. I heard they are some sort of Chinese bug. Also, my melon crop is almost gone all of a sudden! YIKES!
That is Derobrachus geminatus or the Palo Verde Root Borer. Check this website for more information.
http://cals.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/t-tips/bugs/palo-bor.htm
If it hisses its probably a hissing cochroach.
I found something similar in front of my house in Boise, ID. Everyone says it’s a Prionus root borer (prionus californicus) see http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/insects/california-prionus-beetle.aspx
I’m not sure what the differences are b/n the Calif prionus and the Palo Verde, but they must be similar and they are both root borers.
Hello friends!
I found one last night that was nearly 4 inches long. It much resembled a giant cockroach. This was just after a sighting by my friend the day before & a story of another friend I will tell in a moment. I live in Phoenix & the other gentleman was right. It’s a Palo Verde Beetle & from what I’ve gathered, it lives underground in tree roots most of it’s life, coming up in late June-early July to mate. (It’s also a full moon, so they’re more inclined to be “romantic”). They do fly & will pinch if provoked, They can grow up to about 6 inches & they are attracted to light & that’s why he was coming to my door @ about 11pm(though they prefer early evening). Once they mate, the female lays eggs in the tree base & the males usually die. Otherwise, they seem to be harmless. My friend found about 30-40 of them in her backyard one evening some 15 years ago. They had made a circle around 2 others all were flying in for the show. The 2 @ the center seemed to be fighting & the rest were clacking their mandibles in the spirit of the fight I suppose. Very entertaining, but scary to her. But it seems we have nothing to fear. Just let them mate & be on their way & all will be fine.
Well, I have a strange story to tell about those beetles. Yesterday morning I found one dead and floating in my pool. I am an artists hand have been collecting cool looking dead insects for a project. I took the beetle in and placed it in a shallow bowl next to an equally dead hercules beetle I have had for about a year. This morning, I found another of these big black beetles floating in my pool so I took it’s lifeless body in to put with the one from yesterday. YIKES!!! The one from yesterday was not where I left it, I turned the studio upside down. Yes, the hercules beetle was still there and intact. The missing beetle prompted me to put the second dead beetle that I found in the pool, inside a jar………just in case. Well guess what……….this evening that dead beetle in the jar came back to life and was kicking and trying to turn itself onto it’s stomach!!!! What is it with these things? Do they have nine lives like a cat? Do they play possum or what??? I need answers I am totally freaking. And by the way, I came across a half-live one this morning and feeling sorry for it I picked it up to put it back on it’s feet and the darn thing pinched the heck out of my palm……so be careful around these guys they are mean!
hey homie. thats a palo verde borer beetle. i am from tucson and they are my favorite animal. they come during the monsoons where i live. your welcome.
i had one of these beatles crawl inside my blanket last night was on my ankel, thank goodness i didn’t push on it. i screamed my son hit it, cut open its back, it was so mad, it jumped and almost got his finger, we flushed it quickly. hope to never see another.
I haven’t gotten anything done today. I feel like a fog, but what can I say? I’ve just been letting everything wash over me lately, not that it matters. Shrug.
!!! It is class to itself
The beetle you are finding looks like Prionus root borer. I found pictures @ Utah State website http://extension.usu.edu
thats not a pine sawyer right now i have one and a huge insect guide a pine sawyer is different
Looks like an oversized jumbo beetle to me. I have it in my hermit crab cage and I like it. I think I’ll name it henry and let it sleep in my bed sometimes.
I have the same bug in a plastic pot right by me now i live in england
what is it ???
I found this same beetle last night on my porch and it has to be the UGLIEST insect I have seen yet! It measure about 2 inches long and its GROSS! I captured it in a plastic jar and left it on the porch and I could hear it moving around in there~my skin crawls just thinking about it! YUCKKKKK!
Hey, I found on http://www.waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0502.htm that this is an adult pine sawyer beetle.
We found two of these yesterday on our porch. One was 1 1/2″ long and the other was 2 1/2″ long! I placed them in two separate plastic disposable blueberry boxes and by morning the large one chewed it’s way through. The second had almost chewed through as well. When I tried to release the second, he grabbed the plastic with his front pinchers (at mouth) with a very strong grip (eeeks! — so be careful). Anyway, if anyone knows what it is, we would appreciate knowing.
My cat found the same beetle a day ago. It wasn’t making any noises. A day later my husband found another one in our basement. I am alittle freaked out. I have searched the internet and only came up with Round headed borer. It looks just like the beetle I found and what you have pictured. Either way this thing is nasty. Reminds me of the beetle from the movie Beetle Juice.
We found the same beetle tonight. Our cat was playing with it and it was making a clicking/hissing noise. I thought it might be some type of cicada. (Same noise). We are in the country outside of Springfield, Or. 07/25/2006
What is it?..My husband drove into the driveway tonight and a similar beetle flew at his windshield. He capture it. We live in Vancouver,Washington 7/24/06.
As far as I know this is a Cut Beetle. There are different types and colors I’ve seen. They will cut around an entire branch. It’s funny I was searching for more info on this Beetle, because I found this one when I was digging a hole to plant a Carolina Jasmine Plant and I kinda damaged him with the shovel!
its a PALO VERDE BEETLE from phoenix
Titanus giganteus??? Maybe? I killed one outside my front door tonight. we live in Utah. Seriously huge!!! and it took A lot of bug killer and Windex (my mom was using the windex and i was using the bug killer) to finally kill it. I am going to be having nightmares tonight!