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Can anyone identify this rather large beastie? Freed from kitchen window yesterday, can't recall seeing anything like it before.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackthedog2012/7266119354/ ]Big Beetle[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jackthedog2012/ ]jackthedog2012[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackthedog2012/7266118644/ ]Big Beetle[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jackthedog2012/ ]jackthedog2012[/url], on Flickr
Just had a quick flick through MrsP's 'British Insects' ID book and it looks like [i]Rhagium mordax[/i]. Definitely NOT a baby robin.
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Are you sure it's not an Ant-Trojan horse?
And still no mention of a certain mop-topped four piece band from Liverpool.
Rhagium mordax it is.
Great stuff, thanks for that thepurist - it wasn't in our book.
It's got a great English name
"The blackspotted pliers support beetle"
looks poisonous..... squish it