Treebeard will pick up anything.When he handed this little blob to me I thought he was handing me caterpillar frass. When I looked at it a little more closely, I realized it was an insect - some sort of beetle. It was quite small, about 4 mm long, and was found on a blackberry bramble.
So my question is, do you know what it is? If so, would you be so kind as to tell us?
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My guess is a black lump leaf beetle
It's Ringo! I'd recognize that nose and back-beat anywhere!
Hehe...so I have in my hand Ringo, the black lump leaf beetle (or should that be beatle).
I knew I could count on you guys!
Bone Machine!! I am honored by your visit -- forgot to mention that earlier.
Sorry, I have no clue about your beetle. I also have some mysteries on my blog. Perhaps you might help me with ID?
Okay, so I thought that maybe I could be intelligent and discover what kind of beetle this way, and after looking through all of the beetle pictures I could find, I am still stumped. Sorry about that.
That was supposed to say this was, by the way. I'm slightly distracted today, too much going on!
How about a forked fungus beetle?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/49653/bgimage
Deadmike, the beetle is similar in appearance, but doesn't quite match the description of the forked fungus beetle.
I'm hoping this will give the proper URL. If not - bugguide: warty leaf beetle ((Chlamisini)). I just ran across it looking for an id for a presumptive beetle that turned out to be a moth. HA! So take that with a grain of salt.
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