I found a couple of beetles the past two weeks near the retention pond at work. They are attracted to artificial lights, which possibly brought about their demise. The one on the left is an Eastern toe biter. They eat other insects, tadpoles, small fish and salamanders. The middle is a giant water scavenger beetle. Similar food. The last one I believe is a stag beetle, but the jaws were a little small. Last one eats juices of decaying trees. On my thumb for perspective.
Bugs, Some good, some not so good. Problems occur when they are moved to new nitch. One thing I know is I don't want to share my living space with them.
Looks like the big one is a "true bug" as it comes from the order Hemiptera. The other two are beetles from the order Coleoptera. One good way to tell the difference is that beetles wings don't cross each other in the back. Good topic and a great reminder of the millions of living things that are very close to us. Here's a map of the quarantine areas and initial detection locations. Kind of hard to read but shows EAB in near Concord, NH and NE MA.. http://www.emeraldashborer.info/files/MultiState_EABpos.pdf
If I only took a few pictures of the monsters that I find around here. We have one I call a rhinoceros beetle has a big hooked horn on the front
we caught cockroaches in the factory that big. Saw Rats as big as raccoons We would throw nuts and bolts at em
That looks like a Titan Beetle as seen here. Don't worry Gas and Dave.. As long as your hoarding activities keep you out of South America, you should be fine..
