What kind of bug is this?

[Slushy]

So last night at work, I was stepped outside with my co-worker and supervisor for a routine smoke break when my co-worker noticed this big ass beetle on the entrance wall. My supervisor HATES insects so she of course freaked out and asked me to take care of it. I grabbed a broom and knocked it off.

At first, I thought it was a giant cockroach, but I was proved wrong by it when it used its antennas as extra arms to push itself off its back and it walked slowly! The thing reminded of the Tank from Left For Dead, you could its feet scrapping against the concrete. It had big ass jaws that even gave me the chills and it was coming back to the store so I doused it with glass cleaner to give it a quick death while keeping my shoe free of bug guts.

I've never seen this insect so I'm beg to question to any entomologists on here, what the Hell is this?!!

 

[guitarsingerguy]

Just looks like some sort of beetle of stink bug.

 

[SuperFerret]

That looks like the infamous South African Black Leopard Beetle. You're lucky you killed it, because typically most people aren't able to.

 

[chaseter]

Because it kills you before you can kill it.

 

[SuperFerret]

That and it doesn't exist.

 

[chaseter]

Because the people who see it don't live to tell about it.

 

[StorminNorman]

I think it's just a water bug/beetle.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

lol @ chaseter.

 

[The Battousai]

So last night at work, I was stepped outside with my co-worker and supervisor for a routine smoke break when my co-worker noticed this big ass beetle on the entrance wall. My supervisor HATES insects so she of course freaked out and asked me to take care of it. I grabbed a broom and knocked it off.

At first, I thought it was a giant cockroach, but I was proved wrong by it when it used its antennas as extra arms to push itself off its back and it walked slowly! The thing reminded of the Tank from Left For Dead, you could its feet scrapping against the concrete. It had big ass jaws that even gave me the chills and it was coming back to the store so I doused it with glass cleaner to give it a quick death while keeping my shoe free of bug guts.

I've never seen this insect so I'm beg to question to any entomologists on here, what the Hell is this?!!

According to my Audobon field guide (no, I'm not joking), it's known as a Giant Root Borer (Prionus, spp.). They can be 7/8 - 3" long and shiny, reddish brown, yellowish brown, or black. Flattened; sides of pronotum (the upper surface of the prothorax: the first segment of the thorax) usually have course spines. Long, thick antennae. Antennal segments are conical; overlapping in males, cylindrical in females. Larvae have a dark brown head and a white to yellowish-green body.

They live in coniferous forests, mixed, or deciduous.

They range from Southern California north to Alaska, east across Canada and the northern US, south to northen Florida, and west to New Mexico.

The larvae eat live, dying, and decomposing trees, shrubs, and woody vines.

They lay their eggs singly in soil near the food supply. The larvae eat to the inner bark. After three or more years, the larvae prepare egg-shaped pupal cells inside the bark. The adults emerge July-August.

Primarily nocturnal, adults buzz loudly in flight. They are attracted to light, sometimes crashing violently into windowpanes. They are the largest North American long-horned beetles, rivaling in weight the Rhinoceros Scarab.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Species: Big Asseus Bettleus!!

 

[Alex The Great]

A Satan Bug

 

[The Battousai]

There are much more frightening insects out there - even within the beetle group.