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Ground Beetle

Carabinae

Notes:

Common black ground beetle that will point its abdomen in the air when then threatened. Slangly called stink bugs in the southwest, but this is more to keep children from playing with them and pets eating them though they do have a nasty odor if crushed.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Telse
Telse 10 years ago
Common Black Ground Beetle
Carabus sylvosus Carabus sylvosus? - BugGuide.Net


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RebeccaSatterlee
Spotted by
RebeccaSatterlee

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Spotted on Sep 12, 2012
Submitted on May 1, 2013

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