Critter? (Solved!)

[WhistlingBadger]

"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."

Cool! Sort of like mud daubers, and baby spiders!

Well, baby wasps gotta eat too!

 

[Slaphppy7]

Well, baby wasps gotta eat too!

Heck yeah...I like mud daubers, and they love my garage

 

[SomethingsFishy24]

Not a tremor, but still pretty cool. I guess that'll have to do, not sure why I was rooting for a tiny tremor so hard. It has been a long week, with the half still to go.

 

[Back in the fold]

Aww, I loved all of the classic monster movies as a kid....I had about a dozen of the Aurora movie-monster plastic model kits...you gotta be ancient like me, to remember those...parts of them were "glow-in-the-dark"....terrified my sisters, lol

www.CultTVman has models of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Vampirella.

 

[Back in the fold]

Break out the glue and the paints !

 

[Slaphppy7]

Found a deceased adult TB today in the garage, caught up in a floor-level spider web...the innards may have been sucked out, but the exoskeleton remains...hard to get a good pic of just how beautiful the coloration on these beetles can be...but the color pattern may help determine the exact specimen I am dealing with, using the links provided by @Oblio earlier...thanks again

I'm assuming this is an adult from one of the larvae in my yard, the close proximity is more than coincidence, IMO...and, I've seen these adults often, just did not know what they were, or had a chance to catch/vid/photo them, they are so random, and so fast

 

[DragonScales+Doubletails]

I myself have a critter problem. My Mantis Ooth hatched a week earlier than expected. so now I have 250 hungry nymphs to deal with.
looks like a Carolina metallic tiger beetle to me

 

[DragonScales+Doubletails]

here's a pic.

 

[Colin_T]

where's my thong (flipflop for the Americans)?

 

[Rocky998]

where's my thong (flipflop for the Americans)?

Here that means... Ya know what let's not

 

[JuiceBox52]

where's my thong (flipflop for the Americans)?

Glad you didnt mean american thong

 

[Crispii]

 

[Rocky998]

Glad you didnt mean american thong

Yah... I also don't know how well it would kill a bug

 

[Rocky998]

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NOOOOOOOOOOO!
HE'S CURSED US ALL

 

[Crispii]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!
HE'S CURSED US ALL
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