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Critter? (Solved!)
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Darn kids, get off my lawn!
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"As of 2005, about 2,600 species and subspecies were known" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_beetle
Different species will vary in morphology, coloring, etc...
Ah ok.
I still think i was the first one to mwntion beetle larvae though if you go near the beginning of this thread... Obviously I didn't say the exact beetle because I didnt know that but I do believe I said it cluld be a beetle larvae
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You win the trophy, see above.
Take that bug specialists! Some random teen just slaughtered this!
(Joking)
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Awesome! So glad the mystery is solved, and that Slaphappy and family are safe from the invaders!
All those bug specialists reached out to, and you still had to solve it yourself! Such bizarre little critters, you'd think they'd be more widely known, you know? Like you said when you were a kid, you'd have been fascinated by these things, and as a fellow pre-internet kid who was always outside and exploring, I get it, I would have been too!
@Rocky998 was right, pretty sure he was the first to suggest some type of larvae! However, let's not discount the possibility that these are alien critters disguised as tiger beetle larvae! Eh? Eh? You never know! I might be right after all!
All those bug specialists reached out to, and you still had to solve it yourself! Such bizarre little critters, you'd think they'd be more widely known, you know? Like you said when you were a kid, you'd have been fascinated by these things, and as a fellow pre-internet kid who was always outside and exploring, I get it, I would have been too!
@Rocky998 was right, pretty sure he was the first to suggest some type of larvae! However, let's not discount the possibility that these are alien critters disguised as tiger beetle larvae! Eh? Eh? You never know! I might be right after all!
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I'm glad, too....and they have HAD to just started showing up in the last several years, I would have DEFINITELY noticed these as a kid
I sent that vid from the internet to Mrs. Slap, she wants to "fish" for some when I get home, lol
Check out that species map that @Oblio provided above...so many different kinds of them, shapes and colors...Nature is awesome
I like and approve of Mrs. Slap! I immediately thought the same thing when I saw the fishing video, lol! I wanna try it!
Wow, it is fascinating so far! Those mandibles on them though... yikes! Really interesting to see the diagram showing how the larvae wait in their burrows too.
Wooaaahhh, you weren't kidding about the variety in colours and patterns! Maybe now you need to set some kind of trap to catch an adult, and see what species you're dealing with! That link is great, you'd be able to tell which one it is for sure!
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Hey, guess what, Adora. They live in Britain, too! Time to go hunting!
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"Larvae of the Green Tiger Beetle are parasitized by the solitary wasp Methoca ichneumonoides. This means that the wasp lays its eggs inside the Green Tiger Beetle’s body. The female wasp is smooth and slender in shape and this enables it to survive being gripped by the larva’s strong mandibles. The wasp then stings the Green Tiger Beetle larvae to paralyse it and she then inserts an egg into the larva’s burrow. When this egg hatches the wasp larva can feed off the beetle larva in the safety of its own burrow."Hey, guess what, Adora. They live in Britain, too! Time to go hunting!
Cool! Sort of like mud daubers, and baby spiders!
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