Gigantic Queen Ant-or what? SOLVED

[ant3daly]

Epicauta pennsylvanica... definitely.

[TheAngelicDefender]

Fool! Change the name to giant beetle or I will be forced to flag you!!!!

[MrFingerskate69]

nice ass



[Songwriter4God]

That doesn't even look like an ant...

[hellomoto4000]

well obviously that is not a queen ant...

it thorax is separated from its abdomen, the separator is called 'petiole nodes'.. theres a boundary.. :)

[Southparkonline101]

Lol watever it is it's On a PUMPKIN

lol XD

[pampano77]

There are also some other videos in youtube that can be found with the keyword Oil Beetle...

[pampano77]

It looks more like an Oil Beetle to me... just google it and you will find pictures of it.

The Blister beetle has some sort of wings... and yeah, learn how it looks to avoid or kill the next one that come acrosss...

[p3erf80g4949]

iv seen those blister beatles there nasty when u step on em or touch em they explode!

[getalife04]

Blister beetle for sure. I would totally recommend killing it if you haven't already. If they get into your food and lose a leg or something they are toxic it can kill you with in minutes. They are deadly to horses too. I have lost 2 horses to blister beetles they are deadly. Those are some nasty bugs.

[MASTACHIEFrul3s]

Really is what you posted in your comment true?

[getalife04]

yep very much so. They kill horses all the time they eat Alfalfa hay and so do horses. If a horse eats any part of that beetle the are dead within an hour.

[MASTACHIEFrul3s]

wow

do you know where they are located

[getalife04]

pretty much all over except for areas that are cold year around. They like warmer climates and mainly stick to rural areas since they eat plants you won't ever find them in a city unless the ride in on a car or in a box or something. I am an Equine Vet and I have seen about 30 horses die in 2 years from blister beetles.

[darezaa]

haha no way that's an ant. unless it has some ridiculous tumor. even a full out female pregnant ant doesnt get that big of a belly

[gyorihuni]

That's a bug.One from 100.000.000 species!

[Cryptocercus]

It IS a blister beetle. Yes, change the title please.

[turtlesrock527]

that's not even an ant...

[BetoG34]

kill it!!

[gp8383]

KILL IT!

[Tyranitar635]

Can you change the name of the video. It might make up for your total lack of knowledge on insects.

[termikesmike]

((you have read all of the comments? - right? ))

so maybe U can - yet again- identify - xactly what this IS?

fh-----

may ur dreams be peaceful-( where is that final "l" ????)

have u 'added' to OUR knowledge ?

'thik' about it ....

((guess it's time to stop comments ...but what the 'ell ...LIFE goes ON!!! ....till 2012 !!))

[Songwriter4God]

@termikesmike Why not you learn to spell before you blast people? U? You. With a Y and an O. You. Exactly, with a E as well. Fh? Your. Not ur. Thik about it? Think. Exactly THINK! (IBM's motto.) See what cell phones and Twiiter have taught this generation? Stop texting and use it for what it's meant for, talking, not texting, and retain your spelling and grammar skills. All most people need is a screen and keyboard. Stop texting and do yourself a favor.

[AlexandMann]

BEE -TLE no question! I think afiq360skatevids is right its a harmful blister beetle.

[afiq360skatevids]

thats not a queen ant, thats a blister beetle and its very dangerous

[giantsalltheway123]

i think its a dung beatle

[termikesmike]

seems the removed comment was correct !

"This is Meloe violaceus - Violet Oil Beetle"

anyway, search for image -- Meloe violaceus (Violet Oil Beetle)

South Devon

[Audovauld]

I live in Maine, USA and we have these. They scared me alot for some reason and I am usually very good with insects. They just look so sinister i wasn't sure what bad things might have happened if I touched one. But now I know they are safe!

[shawty390]

fused breed

[wontonchewer]

looks like a cockaroach mixed with an ant

[bloodline190]

idk wat it is,i dont know about beetles only ants and arachnids

[asdfgjklasdf]

Its not from the Hymenoptera, it is from the beetle species, the largest queen is of the Army Ants.

[yay4tube]

Definitely looks like Hymenoptera (ants and wasps) and not Coleoptera (beetles). Check out how narrow the junction of the thorax and abdomen is; that's unique to those types of bugs. And looks nothing like the pictures I found for blister beetles.

I'm no bug expert, but I agree with the (giant freakin') ant queen ID. Check out order Hymenoptera, suborder Apocrita.

[sharpshooter566]

thats that bettle what was it called again i thing it was blister beetle or bister

[Rammstein17717]

thats no ant its some sort of beetle

[pROTPANDA]

Blister Beetle. God damn I hate these things, you know when I was about 6-7 years old my sister and mom catched one of these when me and my father have been out for fishing, when they come to me they said "Hey, look what we catched to you" and they open the box...... GOD DAMN! I yell and screamed and did everything, god damn that was a nasty thing. I thought first it was a queen ant but when I read some insect books I changed my mind and it was called "Blister Beetle". Nasty things, looks scary!

[Ieyusa]

I had a Texas version of one of those buggers walk across me in my sleep when I was camping, and I got some blisters on my arm. I was the lucky one, though. Another guy accidently crushed one in his elbow-pit while sleeping. And HOLY HELL I would've hated to be him at that moment.

[pROTPANDA]

FFS! :p How can you sleep outside when you know that those freaks are there and crawling in your tent!?!? I would yell, its the creepiest bug I know ;>

[Ieyusa]

Heheh. We didn't usually have them in the tents. Actually, I never *saw* a single one on the trip, but it's the only way to explain the blisters I had. Scarier things than those beetles are the scorpions. We hung one at the entrance of our tent in a ziplock bag. Nice door-greeting, huh? xD

And taurantulas are just plain awesome.

[dmfaria83]

this is really huge! I posted a video with two atta queens, please take a look...

[jcall7]

like in Links 2 3 4 video

[CanduterioCS]

hahaha is my grandmother

[Rovlad1984]

It's Meloe Proscarabeus, a beetle, not an ant. And tell that cutie-sweetie-sugarplum moron in the background to shut up when you're videoing.

[Freakgrl04]

Thats not an ant, idiot! Thats a beetle!

[warave5]

lol dont call people idiots when you dont really know what some thing is pls bettles dont have the same structure of an ant and its not a blister bug because they are smaller than that lol

[LoLaSn]

beetle lol......

[slayerdrag]

lololo

No Ant Blister Beetle yes. Don't touch it ;).

[Dobinater]

BEATLE. yes gd boy. well done

[lichenxu123]

that doesn't look much like an ant to me

[MePlease2211]

other ants *i know its more of a beetle* look at it...ant says: nice ass baby!

[helloshawn100]

siriuosly its a freekin beatle

[captainsoban]

Blister beetle, dont recommend pissing it off.

[u7alll]

amazing

[clampermoco]

man your dumb.

[jokermanshand333]

it's a beetle.........

[nanoguy4098]

blister beetle!!!

[mastastick2]

kinda looks like a cricket? =D

[drnkbeer]

That is not a queen ant, as it doesnt have a seperated thorax, all ants have two parts to the back of them.

[zoneb]

bagarozzo...

[nanoguy4098]

everyone its not an ant, its a blister beetle, look it up....

[wackosammy]

qnzchoe and XxRawrLovexX are right, ive been studying ants from when i was6, i have two colonys, thant is not a queen ant!! your all stupid, except XxRawrLovexX qnzchoe.

[NMMorna]

yeah it's an ant, a queen and she's hugely pregnant... I have ants just below my bedroom floor... they've eaten all the wood boards from inside and now I can perfectly listen all the noises from below :p also, one of these days I came home and I found hundreds(!) of male winged ants that leave the nest to procriate w/ other queens. I killed them all. the bastards ahaha

[Matyme]

hahahahaha.......NMMorna....lo­l....someday I hope to get rid of the ants under and ontop of my house. =)

[YayYeYo]

its pregnant queen ant ;)

[t3trojans]

called a beetle...

[plasmaball787]

wtf is that ugly looking thing

[mccommas2]

That may indeed be an ant. The andante look to think to me but then again there all sorts of ants. I dug up some large yellow ants once. They were awesome but I was not quick enough. About 6 of them all escapted like a bullet.

The abdomen is swollen reminiscent of a termite queen. She may just be full of eggs. Or she may be some sort of beetle. The front end of her body looks distinctly like an ant but I just don't know.

[qnzchoe]

nope not an ant. look at her butt. it has about 6 segiment. an ant has a BIG abdomin.

[qnzchoe]

nope not an ant. look at her butt. it has about 6 segiment. an ant has a BIG abdomin.

[XxRawrLovexX]

ew its not a queen ant its some sort of cockroach or something, not an ant at all . .

[heelspurs]

From the pictures on the internet, it definitely does NOT seem to be a blister beetle. I just found one tonight in my house, here in Alabama. Exactly the same. The best guess i've found so far is carpenter ant queen.

[GMAC2354]

looks like a queen ant. When I was 4 I was at my neighbor's house one day and we were looking through his old shed and we saw something EXACTLY like that with a bunch of ant workers tending to it. Anyway, we got some wiffleball bats and beat it to the ground

[Rovlad1984]

Wow. You must be proud of yourself.

[termikesmike]

they're back! saw 4 in 2 days

google - blister beetle- see- intoxication

ever hear of spanishfly?

over 300 species in US - this is 'black blister'

don't touch!

[ratgreen]

not an ant

[mrilovetheants]

that is a beetle, Antenna are all wrong, legs going in to the abdomen. It's a beetle of some kind.

[termikesmike]

mr-thanks- missed ur reply-haven't been able to find queen like this- antenna seems wrong esp - yet where are hard shell wings-larva! and to me legs seem to be located in front-odd that last pair of legs isn't further back-i don't know

[mrilovetheants]

No I believe it is actually a Blister Beetle (Meloe proscarabeus). I don't know much more about them then that.

[termikesmike]

hey, that's looks correct,thanks a million! discovered "davesgarden" - been looking for a place to get easy ID,

this is best so far-seems it's in larva stage -only location/region given is 'Maine' -this is Maryland (DC actually).

Document those ants in yr backyard! best,

[robomantis]

you catch her? I want her!