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  Helen Mills

  2 years ago

  What is it?..My husband drove into the driveway tonight and a similar beetle flew at his windshield. He capture it. We live in Vancouver,Washington 7/24/06.
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  Brenda

  2 years ago

  We found the same beetle tonight. Our cat was playing with it and it was making a clicking/hissing noise. I thought it might be some type of cicada. (Same noise). We are in the country outside of Springfield, Or. 07/25/2006
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  Lisa

  2 years ago

  My cat found the same beetle a day ago. It wasn't making any noises. A day later my husband found another one in our basement. I am alittle freaked out. I have searched the internet and only came up with Round headed borer. It looks just like the beetle I found and what you have pictured. Either way this thing is nasty. Reminds me of the beetle from the movie Beetle Juice.
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  Barb

  2 years ago

  We found two of these yesterday on our porch. One was 1 1/2" long and the other was 2 1/2" long! I placed them in two separate plastic disposable blueberry boxes and by morning the large one chewed it's way through. The second had almost chewed through as well. When I tried to release the second, he grabbed the plastic with his front pinchers (at mouth) with a very strong grip (eeeks! --- so be careful). Anyway, if anyone knows what it is, we would appreciate knowing.
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  Barb

  2 years ago

  Hey, I found on www.waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0502.htm that this is an adult pine sawyer beetle.
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  Lori

  2 years ago

  I found this same beetle last night on my porch and it has to be the UGLIEST insect I have seen yet! It measure about 2 inches long and its GROSS! I captured it in a plastic jar and left it on the porch and I could hear it moving around in there~my skin crawls just thinking about it! YUCKKKKK!
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  Jo

  2 years ago

  I have the same bug in a plastic pot right by me now i live in england
  
  what is it ???
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  Rodger

  2 years ago

  Looks like an oversized jumbo beetle to me. I have it in my hermit crab cage and I like it. I think I'll name it henry and let it sleep in my bed sometimes. :-)
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  drake

  2 years ago

  thats not a pine sawyer right now i have one and a huge insect guide a pine sawyer is different
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  s j g

  2 years ago

  The beetle you are finding looks like Prionus root borer. I found pictures @ Utah State website http://extension.usu.edu
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  Name Alexey

  2 years ago

  !!! It is class to itself
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  Sten50394

  2 years ago

  I haven't gotten anything done today. I feel like a fog, but what can I say? I've just been letting everything wash over me lately, not that it matters. Shrug.
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  b dorley

  2 years ago

  i had one of these beatles crawl inside my blanket last night was on my ankel, thank goodness i didn't push on it. i screamed my son hit it, cut open its back, it was so mad, it jumped and almost got his finger, we flushed it quickly. hope to never see another.
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  kaytlyn

  2 years ago

  hey homie. thats a palo verde borer beetle. i am from tucson and they are my favorite animal. they come during the monsoons where i live. your welcome.
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  Rhiannon

  2 years ago

  Well, I have a strange story to tell about those beetles. Yesterday morning I found one dead and floating in my pool. I am an artists hand have been collecting cool looking dead insects for a project. I took the beetle in and placed it in a shallow bowl next to an equally dead hercules beetle I have had for about a year. This morning, I found another of these big black beetles floating in my pool so I took it's lifeless body in to put with the one from yesterday. YIKES!!! The one from yesterday was not where I left it, I turned the studio upside down. Yes, the hercules beetle was still there and intact. The missing beetle prompted me to put the second dead beetle that I found in the pool, inside a jar.........just in case. Well guess what..........this evening that dead beetle in the jar came back to life and was kicking and trying to turn itself onto it's stomach!!!! What is it with these things? Do they have nine lives like a cat? Do they play possum or what??? I need answers I am totally freaking. And by the way, I came across a half-live one this morning and feeling sorry for it I picked it up to put it back on it's feet and the darn thing pinched the heck out of my palm......so be careful around these guys they are mean!
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  Linnette

  2 years ago

  Hello friends!
  I found one last night that was nearly 4 inches long. It much resembled a giant cockroach. This was just after a sighting by my friend the day before & a story of another friend I will tell in a moment. I live in Phoenix & the other gentleman was right. It's a Palo Verde Beetle & from what I've gathered, it lives underground in tree roots most of it's life, coming up in late June-early July to mate. (It's also a full moon, so they're more inclined to be "romantic"). They do fly & will pinch if provoked, They can grow up to about 6 inches & they are attracted to light & that's why he was coming to my door @ about 11pm(though they prefer early evening). Once they mate, the female lays eggs in the tree base & the males usually die. Otherwise, they seem to be harmless. My friend found about 30-40 of them in her backyard one evening some 15 years ago. They had made a circle around 2 others all were flying in for the show. The 2 @ the center seemed to be fighting & the rest were clacking their mandibles in the spirit of the fight I suppose. Very entertaining, but scary to her. But it seems we have nothing to fear. Just let them mate & be on their way & all will be fine. :)
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  jh

  2 years ago

  I found something similar in front of my house in Boise, ID. Everyone says it's a Prionus root borer (prionus californicus) see http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/insect...
  I'm not sure what the differences are b/n the Calif prionus and the Palo Verde, but they must be similar and they are both root borers.
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  fsci

  2 years ago

  If it hisses its probably a hissing cochroach.
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  Ted

  1 year ago

  That is Derobrachus geminatus or the Palo Verde Root Borer. Check this website for more information.
  
  http://cals.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/t-...
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  Nana Nola

  1 year ago

  I live near Yosemite, CA and one of these HUGE beeteley bugs alnost landed in my hair on the front porch early last night. This one almost 3 inches long. I heard they are some sort of Chinese bug. Also, my melon crop is almost gone all of a sudden! YIKES!
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  Az native

  1 year ago

  As a kid growing up in Phoenix, I had neighbors down the road that had a stand of about 10 Paloverde trees along the road. We would catch the cicadas, (we called locust), in the trees and tie thread around their heads and fly them like kites during the early evening, as it got darker we would get out our ping pong paddles and wait for the male Burrowing Beetles to come flying in. I cannot tell you how much harmless fun these two insects gave my friends and I during the scorching summer evenings. Believe it or not my friends and I actually spent as much time reading and researching these critters as torturing them. Hopefully this won't start a thread on entomologist subject abuse.
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  kristy

  1 year ago

  One was in my car and got on my friends foot it was soooooooo gross i hate them, they are ugly!!!!!!!!!
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  damian

  1 year ago

  its a california prionus, i just caught one today. atleast two if not three inches long, not counting its antannae
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  Betty

  1 year ago

  hi I found that same kind of bug, in my yard needless to say it lives no more.I'm in Warren Ohio
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  TRACY

  1 year ago

  HEY THERE EVERYONE, I LIVE IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA AND I WAS JUST WALKING PAST MY OPENED FRONT DOOR LAST NIGHT AND I SAW THIS LARGE BUG ON IT'S BACK SO I CALLED FOR MY BROTHER TO LOOK AT IT AND HE THOUGHT HE KILLED IT. BUT LOW AND BEHOLD THE NEXT NIGHT IT WAS STILL MOVING AROUND IN A ZIP LOCK FREEZER BAG. I WAS SO INTERESTED TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS WAS THAT I WAS LOOKING ALL OVER THE NET JUST TO SEE IF I COULD GET INFO. WELL THAT'S WHEN I FOUND THIS SIGHT. IT WAS ABOUT NINE-THIRTY AT NIGHT. NOW I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KEEP MY DOOR OPEN ANY LONGER FOR FEAR THAT ANOTHER WILL COME INTO MY HOME. THIS THING IS FREAKY, I THINK WE ALL CAN AGREE ON THIS. JULY 26, 2007 AT 9:30 PM.
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  Jen

  1 year ago

  okay hey guys. umm i am a freshman & for our advanced biology project we have to do an insect collection.... one of the insects that are required is a beetle. now i found one JUST like this one today. and i need to know what it is.how to kill it & preserve it. and its scientific name. can anyone help?
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  lisa and shams

  1 year ago

  lisa: well me and shams were opening a pack of M&Ms n there this big beetle like bug and looked like the one on that picture but had pincers on its bum (ouchhh) what is it?????????????
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  Kerry

  1 year ago

  I found one of these beetles in my hallway and i live in Nottingham, England. My dofg also keeps finding what looks to be larvae of sum bug it has approx 6 tiny little legs, and fine hairs along its body.
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  Gloria Gipson

  1 year ago

  I also found some of these Prionus beetles at a lake near Carey, Idaho on July 9th, 2007. They were attracted to a bright security light at the campground, and were gathering by the light of our trailer outside the windows. They also made clicking noises, like other people on this thread.
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  Brenda

  1 year ago

  August 7, 2007; 2:29 p.m. from Kelowna, British Columbia.
  
  My neighbour (I am Canadian, hence our spelling with the 'u') knocked on my door at about 10:30 last night, saying if anyone knows what the bug on the mat at their front door is, I would....well I didn't! I was thrilled when I came across this photo a few minutes ago. It looked the same, and I estimated, with antennae that it was about 2 1/2 inches long. We observed that the abdomen was very pubescent with dense, fine beige hairs .... yes we ventured to lift the mat up, and tip the beetle slightly sideways to view it from the side. Interestingly, these neighbours have a very large pine tree adjacent to their house.
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  Janet

  1 year ago

  I just found my third one of these things (or something like it) living in a 40 year old barn where I keep my horse here in the SF bay area of California, The horse has some weird bites on his legs too. I really want to know if there is a connection and what is it????
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  Monika

  1 year ago

  I found a beetle that looks just like this one, it was in my house on my bed! It must have came through the window...this one was about 10 inches long (the body) with the antennas it was almost 2 feet long! I live in canada and I was just wondering if anyone has the least idea what this thing is? ...or was lol ...I've looked all over the internet and I haven't found any beetles nearly this large...it made a sound like...a moth behind a curtain...that's what I thought it was at first...noise made by the wings maybe?...I'm really not sure I've never seen anything like this....any ideas?
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  monika

  1 year ago

  PS. we found this thing in july...this is the first bug I've found that looks anything like it...
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  Sean

  1 year ago

  I'm pretty sure Its an asian long horned beatle
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  Sean

  1 year ago

  You should let the authorities know. They're trying to eliminate these thins from north america
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  Tom

  1 year ago

  Hi! I'm a biologist from Hungary, and I'm sure, it's a kind of a longhorn beetle (from Cerambycidae family), but I can't tell you the exact species name. Longhorn beetles in our country eat dead, decayed trees, they don't do harm to anyone (except if you catch it, it can bite you for protecting itself) and the largest species like your bug are protected by law.
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  John Newton

  1 year ago

  The best way to get rid of any beatles is to make friends with a Pakistani or East Indian person, and borrow some of his cock roaches, which they seem to harvest in their homes. Beatles won't stay around with large numbers of cock roaches in the area.
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  patty

  1 year ago

  hello i live in L A and my back yard is infested by those bug, are does the same one that came out on the news?
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  sarah

  1 year ago

  I found one today cats must love these thing because my cat was playing with it too! Its called a california prionus beetle butthere r other types of prionus beetles. I dont know if this thing bites or not but Iam not taking any chances with a mouth like that! yucky!
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  Barb

  1 year ago

  yup....nasty bugs!! im in yuma,az and they are here to ...my other half brought one home from work for me to see...he said he played with them when he was a kid....they would see who could hit the most with a bamboo stick..yuk!! i told him to take it back from where ever he got it i cant stand bugs that fly!!!!!!!
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  Tammy

  12 months ago

  I live in Milton-freewater Oregon and on the 4th of July my daughter found one by my door when she went to open it.What is it ? We have never seen anything like it here.
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  Mody

  12 months ago

  Hey everybody... the picture of the bug above is a Palo Verde Root Borer. you will learn every thing you need to know about them if you look up Palo Verde Beetle,..... and if you didnt know you can sell these for 10$ each....
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  alek

  12 months ago

  my cat brought in one exactly the same but i cant figure out what its called im located in utah
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  tamie

  12 months ago

  OMG!!!!!!!!MY HUSBEND JUST FOUND ONE LAST NITE .IT SCARED THE HECK OUT OF ME AND THE KIDS.I HAVED LIVED MANY PLACES AND NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.,YES IT IS A PALO VERDE BEETLE.THE JAWS ARE SCARY AS HECK IT LOOKS MEAN TO.WE PUT IT IIN A BUG HOUSE AND IT BEARLY FITS.IM SCARED IT WILL CHEW OUT,AND I SURE DONT WANNA LET IT GO ANYWEAR.MY HUSBAND WENT TO TOUCH IT WITH A GLOVE ON AND IT STARTING CHARGING AT HIM .IT WANTED TO BT HIM IM SURE OF IT.YES HE FOUND IT AFTER THE MONSOON WEATHER. AND WE DONT HAVE ANY TREES IN OUR YARD SO IT MUST HAVE FLOWN IN.TIP IT LOOKS BETWEEN A CROSS OF A GIANT COCKROACH AND A HUGE BEETLE.
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  lori bell

  11 months ago

  I have never seen something so huge.
  I was taking out the trash with my oldest cat when I felt something hit me.
  and the cat was a few feet away.
  I jumped up and down and shook. And then I noticed it on my screen door. And then I screamed. lol
  It was so big my cat didnt even mess with it. I grabbed the ant and roach spray till it fell over with legs up. I think I used a half a can. Only been here in Las Vegas for 4 weeks we dont have those in Los Angeles. YIKES!!!!!!!!!
  Next day it was gone maybe it played dead...
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  Nicolette_19

  11 months ago

  it isnt a California Prionus or a root boror i found the same thing on my porch last night and if you look at the California Prionus or root boror you can see that their mandabols arent big at all on the picture of this better it is rather big i have about 5 pictures of the same beetle howeveri cant tell you what kind of beetle it is i will keep looking
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  Jamee Plumley

  11 months ago

  Does anyone know how to get rid of them? I have about 10 palo verde beetle holes in my backyard in a corner. A new one pops out almost every day, I found out that if you pour water down the holes that pisses them off and they come out with their jaws open...
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  zane

  11 months ago

  that is a paloverde bettle they are not poisonous but it can bit so whatch out
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  rob

  11 months ago

  i have those beetles in my yard. they are broad necked root beetles. the so called stinger on back is for laying eggs. 3 to 5 hundred eggs. they feed off the roots of your trees and eventually kill them. three of them stole my dog! im crying right now so please bear with me. if you see my dog he is a yellow lab about50 pounds and answers to the name buddy. please xcall the police. or better yet the army they are big ass bugs. makes the ghetto roaches look like lady bugs. wtf? how do i kill these things? cant see them unless you catch them laying eggs. please help. if you do see my dog he might respond to you with woof! woof! ty
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  genevieve

  11 months ago

  i have this same kind of beatle in a fish tank at my house. i live in phoenix az
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  walkin7

  11 months ago

  I live in Switzerland. Yesterday early evening, sunshine, dinner outside, and a huge type beetle landed on the table near my plate. My husband said, "What the hell is that?" Iridesncent green, huge antennas, six legs, and wanted to go up my glass of wine after it checked out my plate. Well, it did figure out how to get up the glass, after falling off a few times. It went around the glass and worked its way up. Then it smelled the wine, tried to lower itself into the glass by hanging on on one of its six legs. Looked like it got a bit high and then went around the glass, still with the one leg for leverage, to where my lip print was and looked like it fed on that. My husband said it looked like and Alien. I know someone who is into this stuff, so I said as soon as I saw it, "Hi Lance". He is a CEC which means Chief executive Cook and his Alien friends love Alcohol. Found out today that this creature inhabits the Southern part of California. He now lives in Beverly Hills. A sawyer beetle of sorts so I have read? We had a good laugh and a lot of entertainment last evening, but the creature was highly intellengent, knew what it wanted, and neither one of us have seen such a thing in the past 35 years. Hope someone can give us some insite and/or you have just enjoyed this true story. J.
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  Alex

  11 months ago

  That's Derobrachus geminatus, the Palo Verde root borer beetle. I found one in Las Vegas, NV, just outside Rancho High School.
  I was able to catch it easily, because it appeared to be dying. Took me a few weeks to figure out what it was.
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  Brian

  11 months ago

  I dont know what it is but they are big as hell was riding home on my bike it hit me felt like a small bird hit me thought what ever it was just bounced off so i ride about five more miles get home take off back pack and there is this thing on my back yeah about shit a brick stepted on it twice kicked it off the porch and the next morning it was still alive :P
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  ed tapia

  11 months ago

  I saw somthing like that in our back yar, didnt know what it was but it was huge
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  kelsi

  11 months ago

  WOW THAT LOKES WIRED!!!!!!!!
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  ryanne

  11 months ago

  i found the same bug in my bathtub and it tryed to bite me then i captured it in a cup it started hissing and clicking.
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  trevor

  11 months ago

  i found one last night (philomath oregon) and when i put it in a jar i noticed all these tiny little scorpions climbing out from under its wings. there was a bunch of them. ive spent all morning trying to identify this beetle. ive come up with a few ideas but none are definate. i did find out what the scorpions are though. theyre called "book-scorpions" theyre eating the tiny parasites that live on the beetle i guess....
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  Len

  11 months ago

  There are many species of beatles that have similar characteristics of the one in the photo, so they could be confused with the Palo Verde (shown above) depending on where you find them. The larvea live deep in the ground under Palo Verde trees, for up to three years, feeding on the roots. During a wet monsoon year they morph into an adult beatle, emerge from the ground, breed, lay eggs & die. There is no way to get rid of them, because they live to deep in the ground. If they infest a tree, they can kill it. The only thing you can do is water and fertalize, to keep the tree heathy enough to survive the infestation.
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  Tiffany

  11 months ago

  Hello,
  Thanks for all of this info. My husband and I saw this same type of bug on our window tonight. We live in Utah but our extended family just left about 5 days ago to go back home to Tucson. Do you think that this could have traveled with them from there via, camping trailer or truck? Has anyone ever seen this beetle in Utah?
  Thanks
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  James

  11 months ago

  I found a bug like this today on my ranch in Western Washington State (near Seattle). It was seemingly dead, just lying on the driveway. We thought it was a cockroach, but they aren't too common around this area. We just went through really hot period, in the low 90’s (that’s hot for our area). I wonder if that’s what brought this bug into the open.
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  Linda

  10 months ago

  http://bugguide.net/node/view/74948
  My sister sent this link and it looks like the same bug! She lives near the canyon in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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  Linda

  10 months ago

  http://bugguide.net/node/view/74948
  My sister sent this link and it looks like the same bug! She lives near the canyon in Salt Lake City, Utah, and says her cats have brought several of these home and left them for her on her stairs - yuck!!
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  Teresa Ray

  10 months ago

  WE live in the south part of Salem, in the country, cleaning out the garage we found one of the hudge beetles, I have never seen anything that big ever, I have lived out there for 40 years! It has been really hot though, it sounds like the ones everyone is talking about, last night taking the curtians down there was a dead one in the mix of curtains it was dead and hudge my daughter was with me she screamed and then asked if it was a scoripion? I said no it was the same one I found the other day, They do make noise I think I thought I had crickets but it is not the same noise. Hope this helps seems like their everywhere. Im going to take one in to have it checked find out what it is for sure Will let everyone know when I do.
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  Colin Vogel

  10 months ago

  This looks like a longhorn beetle of some variety. there is a major problem with the Asian longhorn beetle which looks like this but is red with white spots. They spread like mad and breed down in the roots of the trees and dead decaying wood matter. I do not beleive they are toxic (poison bite)... but looks like they could hurt you. When I ran into other such large insects I brought them to a local College where I was able to gain knowledge from their free research. Turns out I also had Mexican killer bees living in the walls of my old basement. Be glad they are just beetles and not something deadly that will put your kids into a coma.
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  Talous

  10 months ago

  My boyfriend just found one of these (or something very close to it..but the one that my boyfriend found has a much rounder rump. XD ) on the porch of the trailer that we sleep in.
  
  It sounds like it'd been attracted by the porch light that we'd turned on. After reading through this and looking at the links, the one that I found is the Prionus californicus beetle. The palo verde borer beetle looks similar but isn't the right one. I'll wager they come from the same family of beetles though.
  
  Personally, I'd wanted to know if it was dangerous to have/be around which was why I'd kept reading.
  
  Looks like it can bite out of self defense and that it'll play dead so we'll ignore it. I feel like putting it in a jar or something but my boyfriend told me I couldn't keep it. x: Guess I can't add a bug to my pet collection.
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  Talous

  10 months ago

  ...I wanna name him Quiggles. ;-;
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  Cheri

  8 months ago

  we had the same one on our deck last night! We put it in a jar...what in the heck is it...and are there more????
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  Judy

  7 months ago

  I just had one on our patio, also in Yuma. When my dog went outside, the beetle raised it rear end up and went after my dog. It looked like a stinger on the end. Its in the glory land
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  eeee

  4 months ago

  It's a paloverde root borer
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