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Uploaded by on Jun 28, 2008

Some kind of hissing beetle in our backyard of NC. Can anyone identify it?

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  • XD!

    I can solve your problem right here and now. That, my friend. Is a "Ground Beetle". I live in North Carolina, too. And I've stumbled upon these creatures numerous times. They're harmless, well. I would like to think so. You can pick this fellow up, just avoid the mandables. :]

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  • Found one then boiled it to death

  • @HomicidexMurreh no, its a bess beetle.

  • Odontotaenius disjunctus

    enjoy.

  • @HomicidexMurreh Nope... not a ground beetle but a Passalid. Odontotaenius Disjunctus to be exact. AKA Patent Leather or Bess Beetle.

  • This is a Patent-Leather beetle. My four year old son currently has two as pets. They have not bitten us, no matter how we handle them, they just hiss. I played with them all the time as a kid, we called them hissing beetles. I have never been bitten by one.

  • That's actually not a ground beetle, but a "Bess Beetle." The antennae give it away. Ground beetles have very long ones, whereas bess have the short clubbed ones you see in the clip.

  • omg!i got these in my backyard too!xD

  • I thought the one I found was "chirping"

  • You're lucky it didn't rip your hand off!

  • wow & people ask if i am afraid of my macaw beaks,i'll take my chances with the birds.the heck with them bugs!!!!!!!!

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