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Old June 8, 2019   #1
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I am not very good at identifying beetles friend or foe... Anyway, I happened to meet several beetles recently, so I took pics to sort them out. Please share your beetles, and I may learn to recognize them more easily.


The first one was in my greenhouse, where it ate large bites of my grape leaves and burdock. It seems to be a pest type, but I don't know its name. I squashed it as soon as the pic was taken.
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I had better luck with this second beetle, I found in one of my containers that was outdoors over the winter. Really a pretty creature, and I did let it go just in case it was a friend... as it turned out to be. They are large beetles and prey on slugs and wireworms among other things.

Bronze Ground Beetle, aka Bronze Carabid, aka European Ground Beetle: Carabus nemoralis, according to this:
http://www.ukwildlife.net/beetles/ca.../carabidae.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabus_nemoralis

We need more of these.
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Looks almost like the Dreaded Colorado Potato Beetle in the first pictuer.
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Worldwide, there are over 40,000 varieties of beetles. So I narrowed my search down to 'newfoundland ground beetle identification' https://www.google.com/search?q=newf...w=1152&bih=605

A lot of ground beetles eat seeds and small insects, but not all are good or bad. I did see some pictures that look a lot like the first picture, but all it said was 'ground beetle'.

Yesterday we saw an Iron Clad beetle on a tree. They are very cool looking. This is an Internet picture of one.
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That Iron Clad beetle does look amazing!
Thanks to you Worth I went looking for beetle pest families, and now I think that plant munching beast in the first pic is a type of weevil. They have the snout and they have the elbowed antenna (looks like an M in the pic because they're folded). Root weevil, vine weevil?? Not sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otiorhynchus_meridionalis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_weevil


Weevil evil. Maybe resident evil, in the greenhouse...

@ Salt, the ground beetles are beneficials in the garden - pest eaters.
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