Subject: Beetle ?
Geographic location of the bug: western new york
Date: 06/25/2018
Time: 08:56 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: found on golf course near niagara falls
How you want your letter signed: jw
Dear jw,
This is an Eyed Elater, the largest North American Click Beetle. The “eyes” are actually eyespots, markings that might fool a predator into thinking the Eyed Elater is a much larger, and potentially threatening creature, when it is in fact quite harmless.
I saw this same bug in my pool two days ago, thank you for saying what it was.