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New Brunswick

Hi....my hubby found a bug like this attacking and eating a much larger earthworm. That one got away, but I captured this one and have it in a container. I am taking it to the dept of agriculture as they could not identify it from my description. Does anyone out there know what this thing is?

7/25/2003 10:10:10 PM

Nova Scotia

looks like a mutant wire worm (usually yellow) very common in hen manure from your neck of the woods

8/1/2003 3:45:40 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

i already posted the ans to this.

i see them all the time, they are called Predacious Ground Beetles, see the link.
http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/inse002/inse002.htm

Glenn

8/1/2003 4:38:46 PM

New Brunswick

Its the ground beetle alright. Thanks for identifing it. Another person in here came up with the same answer. I let him go last week. He was some happy to get back in my flower bed. (:

8/3/2003 8:48:16 PM