What kind of 2.5" bug is this????

[squid]

This is a ___________________.

 

[Jacksonricher]

BIG UGLY TYPE

 

[ZoNiE]

Looks like a Palo Verde. Harmless. Where is it?

 

[squid]

Looks like a Palo Verde. Harmless. Where is it?

It's my friend's, it's in Washington state.  She thought it was a cockroach but I told her that roaches have their longest legs as their back legs, and other than Washington DC you don't see 3" cockroaches.
Yes I think it's a weird beetle, sent to freak her out.

 

[frater secessus]

It's the juvenile form of the 4" beetle.

 

[ratfink56]

I hope I never find one of those in my van.

 

[RowanFae]

... and other than Washington DC you don't see 3" cockroaches.
Yes I think it's a weird beetle, sent to freak her out.

You've obviously never been to Louisiana, were they get big, fly AND hiss at you.

 

[QinReno]

What's interesting about the beetle is, it doesn't even appear to have feelers on the front. Cockroaches have very long feelers in general, but a lot of beetles have short feelers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=large+beetle&source=lnms&tbm=isch
https://www.google.com/search?q=cockroach&source=lnms&tbm=isch

There are more species of beetles than anything else,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle

 

[bigsallysmom]

That's enough to make me shake out my shoes every morning.

 

[QinReno]

Ha, speaking of no feelers (wrong!), I found this image which is supposedly a click beetle. You can see it has its feelers pulled underneath, and looking very carefully at OP's attachment, there does appear to be light-colored feelers along the side. It's always something. I guess they can pull them in when they're sleeping or whatnot.
https://www.ourbreathingplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/12.png

 

[frater secessus]

You've obviously never been to Louisiana, were they get big, fly AND hiss at you.

And the bugs are bad, too!

 

[tx2sturgis]

It's a VW Super Beetle!

(very weird)

 

[RowanFae]

And the bugs are bad, too!

 

[Seminole Wind]

squid Wrote:
... and other than Washington DC you don't see 3" cockroaches.

You've obviously never been to Louisiana, were they get big, fly AND hiss at you.

lol... in san diego i saw cockroaches lift a castiron manhole cover to get out. not just one or 2 but thousands pushing up under the manhole cover. first it started to rattle, we heard it then the roaches just poured out from under it. at 2 in the morning it was all i could do to not drop a duce in me britches. wish i had had a camcorder, was like straight out of a horror movie...

that was the worst thing i ever had to clean off the bottom of my boots

 

[hugemoth]

Looks like a longhorn beetle with the antenna folded under. We have them at my place in Bend Oregon. The larva bore into wood.

 

[RoamerRV428]

cool bug. no idea on type of beetle but thankfully bugs don't scare me. Now spiders!! Small spiders ok, but then some states grow those suckers very very big

 

[SLB_SA]

One of my brothers who works on remote cell towers (and telecom elsewhere) says that daddy long-legs spiders prey on black widow spiders. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae#Diet says "The legend may result from the fact that the daddy long-legs spider preys upon deadly venomous spiders, such as the redback, a member of the black widow genus Latrodectus."

 

[Headache]

...and other than Washington DC you don't see 3" cockroaches.

Then you'll be surprised if you ever see a sewer roach!  I was in a motel in Apache Junction the first time I saw one.   It wasn't afraid of the light being turned on either.

 

[Pleasant Travels]

Appears to be a "soldier beetle",...from the same genus as the Palo Verde.