Who knows what kind of beetle this is?

  • Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    July 14, 2010 at 3:12 am #1268338

    All I know about this guy and his 30 or so brother and sisters is that they like eating bullheads.

    I tried looking them up online but was quickly confused by the gabillions of bug photos.

    The yellow is the head.

    Any bug-ahalics out there?

    jonny p
    Waskish, MN
    Posts: 668
    July 14, 2010 at 3:26 am #886637

    I see those around our big minnow tanks when it gets hot out.

    I’m curious also.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    July 14, 2010 at 3:42 am #886645

    Eating live or dead bullheads? Was it in the water? I can’t make out the beetle well in the photo on my phone, but I have seen ones like that with a yellow head, but never near bullheads, live or dead.

    I had a feeling that this was going to be about Japanese beetles. Beastards found our hibiscus again this year.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    July 14, 2010 at 3:52 am #886649

    Dead bullheads and the second photo show them a little better.

    Here I thought it was a rare almost extinct beetle JP!

    jd318
    NE Nebraska
    Posts: 757
    July 14, 2010 at 3:57 am #886654

    First skinks, now beetles. What’s next BK?

    jerrj01
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 1547
    July 14, 2010 at 4:10 am #886663

    I’m a former 4H member. It is a carrion beetle. As their name suggest they eat dead things.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    July 14, 2010 at 6:02 am #886672

    Un-BEE-lievable!

    1 hour and we have a correct answer. Just goes to show that the folks that make up IDo are the best…and there is someone on this site that that has the answer to any question!

    muskychaser
    Prescott, Wi
    Posts: 372
    July 14, 2010 at 11:44 am #886692

    BK its a Carion beetle they are found on decaying and rotting things, another way mother nature cleans up. I hope it wasnt on you

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    July 14, 2010 at 12:18 pm #886698

    It was on my bait!

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
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    July 14, 2010 at 3:04 pm #886764

    They are awesome! I saw two of them bury a whole rat and skin it…eat it…on the Discovery channel!

    pdl
    Bayport/St. Croix/Otsego/Grand Rapids
    Posts: 450
    July 14, 2010 at 8:50 pm #886901

    Looks like it could be Ringo.
    (Slow day in the media biz?–Try using panfish gear for giant redhosrse suckers if you’re really that bored!)

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    July 15, 2010 at 5:11 pm #887132

    Quote:

    Looks like it could be Ringo.
    (Slow day in the media biz?–Try using panfish gear for giant redhosrse suckers if you’re really that bored!)


    ???

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    July 15, 2010 at 5:51 pm #887144

    Oh yeah…those! They are the favorite food of the skink!

    Where is yours??

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    July 15, 2010 at 8:21 pm #887181

    If you guys are trying to confuse me, it isn’t working. There are no levels of confusion for me except for permanently confused.

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18621
    July 15, 2010 at 10:06 pm #887202

    I’ve seen these swarming a particular rank fungus before.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    July 16, 2010 at 1:36 am #887231

    Bailey ???

    big G

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    July 16, 2010 at 1:37 am #887235

    Quote:

    Bailey ???

    big G

    No, that would be BK!!

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