"Can you identify this bug?" Topic

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Xintao	03 Jul 2018 6:17 a.m. PST
I found this guy crawling around my deck. My first thought it was a beetle, but the wife freaked and wants to "nuke from orbit" on the chance that it is a cockroach even near the house. Can you identify this bug? Thanks
Parzival	03 Jul 2018 7:37 a.m. PST
It's a beetle. Possibly a brown click beetle (touch it with a stick; if it "clicks" and flips, it's a click beetle). But it also resembles a blister beetle, so don't touch it with bare hands! It could be a pine sawyer beetle, too. In any case, it isn't a cockroach. Here's a nifty website that might help you out (I narrowed the search down to North American beetles): link
OldGrenadier at work	03 Jul 2018 8:21 a.m. PST
That's Bob. Please tell him his wife is looking for him.
Xintao	03 Jul 2018 10:19 a.m. PST
Thanks Parzival, calling off the airstrike now. OG, lol
Andrew Walters	03 Jul 2018 5:45 p.m. PST
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