Spotting

Description:

Big ugly black bug?

Habitat:

Chenango Valley State Park

Notes:

Beetle?

1 Species ID Suggestions

Saturniidae27 3 years ago

Hermit beetle

Osmoderma eremicola Osmoderma eremicola - Wikipedia

4 Comments

Kalen 3 years ago

Beautiful

Kalen 3 years ago

Not ugly.

keithp2012 12 years ago

Yasser is right some sort of scarab beetle.

Yasser 12 years ago

Not sure. Do you have any more photos? It might be a type of scarab beetle (Family Scarabaeidae). Look here for some examples, particularly at the bottom of the page: http://bugguide.net/node/view/187

Spotted by
Brian M

Chenango Forks, New York, United States

Spotted on Jun 27, 2011
Submitted on Jun 27, 2011