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Beach Termites?


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#1 Offline Chromerust - Posted January 29 2016 - 2:25 PM

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I found a few pairs of these founding in wet swamp land right by the beach in sand. They are metallic gold in sunlight and about 1/4" long, I'm debating on keeping them. Does anyone here know anything about these?

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#2 Offline Alza - Posted January 29 2016 - 2:54 PM

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Keep them...but are you sure they are termites?



#3 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 29 2016 - 5:31 PM

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Keep them...but are you sure they are termites?

 

That's what I'm wondering.



#4 Offline Subverted - Posted January 29 2016 - 5:40 PM

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Its a rove beetle, I think...


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#5 Offline gcsnelling - Posted January 29 2016 - 6:30 PM

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Definitely a beetle.



#6 Offline klawfran3 - Posted January 29 2016 - 10:17 PM

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Looks like some kind of Staphylinidae. There are so many subfamilies of rove beetles that that's the best I can give you. It's a beautiful beetle.

 

I just looked it up, apparently there are 3,200 individual genera of rove beetle.


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#7 Offline Canadian anter - Posted July 3 2016 - 11:37 AM

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Rove beetle


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#8 Offline SamKeepsAnts - Posted November 28 2016 - 7:28 AM

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beetle agreed


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