Found it walking across my tent floor on my whitetail hunt in Idaho last November. That's a medium sized ladle for reference. I posted on another site and have had several suggestions as Stonefly or earwig. I think it is none of those. When we tried to kill it, it stood on its hind legs to try and fight us.
Why is it called a double u, should'nt it be called a double v?
Hearkening back to the "Alien" series,....it's nest, hive, mound, whatever
Nuke it's entire Planet.
Don't tyell Al Gore
GTC
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There's a lots of different kinds, most everywhere including the ones taxidermists use to clean skulls.
The usual characteristics are usually a somewhat long, slender abdomen but the real give away is the half-length elytra (wing covers), several kinds can fly, the wings just fold up under these.
Google imaging on "rove beetle" will show a bunch.
BIrdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
There's a lots of different kinds, most everywhere including the ones taxidermists use to clean skulls.
The usual characteristics are usually a somewhat long, slender abdomen but the real give away is the half-length elytra (wing covers), several kinds can fly, the wings just fold up under these.
Google imaging on "rove beetle" will show a bunch.
BIrdwatcher
Thanks Birdwatcher!
Why is it called a double u, should'nt it be called a double v?
Birdwatcher is correct. It is a Rove beetle belonging to the family Staphylinidae
Birdwatcher is loathe to admit it, but he actually has not one, but TWO University degrees in bugs. In fact he was even employed at times by a university identifying and cataloguing bugs. Of course I know that bugs are technically just those in the Order Hemiptera but I'm using the colloquial sense of the word here.
How this bug degree thing could actually happen when he never intended to actually make a career out of it is a mystery. But then, LOTS of people majoring in Entomology never made a career out of it either.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Birdwatcher, be proud to be a little buggy. My Entomology degree came from Colorado State. (Before they ended their undergrad program). I worked as an entomologist for about 10 years and somehow ended up breeding and producing pinto beans.
You know what we say. "Times Fun when you're having Flies".
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