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Hey bug-peoples!
This thing just scared the hell out of me!! It’s getting to be about midnite-ish and I was heading to bed when this copper-coloured death beetle streaks across the carpet sending me running into the next room like a sissy! I’m absolutely terrified by the size of it….so of course I plop a quarter down next to it, trap it under a glass and get my camera! I tried to get as close as I could so you could see the pretty bump-pattern on it’s back and the sheer magnitude of it’s teeth-mandible things. So here ya go! What is this thing?? Now I am off to scoop it up and release it outside….. if it somehow escaped in the middle of the night, I’m pretty sure it could kill me…. Oh! I’m in Battleford, Saskatchewan if it helps! Thanks alot!!
Lindsay
Hi Lindsay,
We are happy to hear that despite your terror, you released the Fiery Hunter after the photo session. The Fiery Hunter, Calosoma calidum, is one of the Caterpillar Hunters, a genus of large, conspicuous beetles. As their name implies, they feed on caterpillars, and are an important natural biological control agent. Without predators like Caterpillar Hunters, plant eating species would devour our food supply.
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Isn’t this carabus granulatus?
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