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Title: weird giant bug idenitifcation
Post by: Concorde on 11/08/2010 19:51:37

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Title: weird giant bug idenitifcation
Post by: JP on 12/08/2010 04:45:16

It looks like some species of longhorn beetle to me.  There's a website with pictures of the various species here--you can try typing in your country in the lower left and it should give you pictures of the types native to your area: http://www.cerambycoidea.com/gallery.asp

Title: weird giant bug idenitifcation
Post by: RD on 12/08/2010 11:02:07

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

Title: weird giant bug idenitifcation
Post by: ecogirl10 on 22/08/2010 23:37:46

I agree, that is a longhorn, or cerambycid, beetle. You can tell by enlongate body and long cylindrical antennae, and some of them make pretty loud noises when bothered.

http://www.cerambycids.com/
http://bugguide.net/node/view/171