Comments on: Unidentified Insect / Beetle / Bug

By: vinny

vinny — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:35:23 +0000

The Derobrachus geminatus or the Palo Verde Root Borer has different antenna.

By: melvin

melvin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:21:00 +0000

its a PALO VERDE BEETLE from phoenix

By: Chloe

Chloe — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:24:38 +0000

If anyone can help me here, please do.
I was sharing a hotel rooom with my step sister, and all of a sudden a loud noise caught our attention. It was a big black beetle type insect, with a hard back, ( So, no, i don’t think it was a horsefly) And it had a pair of wings.
We managed to get it down with.. or should i say my step sis, managed to get it down, whilst i was screaming!! With deodrant. It fell and i ran to get a glass, whilst she was still spraying it.
we put a glass over it, and we woke in the morning to find it was dead. Please please help me, as i live in england, and this is the weirdest bug yet!!! Thankss alot
-Chloe x

By: Blaire

Blaire — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:19:51 +0000

My sister found one of these guys in our pool, dead. She decided it would be funny to prank my other sister and I with it, which was very entertaining. Anyway, after she scared the **** out of my sister, she took it and put it in the bathroom to wait to scare my brother, and then it came back to life and started moving! It doesn’t seem to have much life or energy, but it’s moving its head and pincers and now she’s got it in a kleenex box. After reading some of these stories, I think it’ll escape by morning.
Oh, and by the way, we live in northern Illinois, so I have no idea what it’s doing up here.
Its a Palo Verde Borer beetle. Not a cockroach, or anything else that has been suggested previously, but its still the biggest beetle I’ve ever seen.

By: cutecapricorn

cutecapricorn — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:05:03 +0000

omg that is a Palo Verde Beetle! i was walking my dog this morning and he kinda stalled so i got out the door walked down the hall and i had to pull my puppy! the i turned around and my neighbors door it was there on its back and its abdomen was popped open with im guessing light yellow cream colored eggs comming out the eggs wer everywhr,and the worse thing is is that it was alive and moving,mind you that i live in atlanta georgia, that was the first time i have ever seen anything like it