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Groundbug
Copyright © 2006 kienzan

Groundbug
Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Size: About 1 inch
I fished it out earlier that day but it ran back into it's hole. When fully pulled out it looked a lot like a lucanus capreolus larva but it's white wormlike body was very small and thin. It's legs are on the bottem of it's body. I poked at it some with my pine needle and it ran around and then played dead. It seemed to pinch at my pine needle and try to drag it in.
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Contributed by kienzan on 19 August, 2006 - 6:10pm
Last updated 19 February, 2008 - 7:28pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 November, 2006 - 4:43pm login or register to post comments

I think
This may be the larvae of a tiger beetle. It looks like this photo was taken somewhere with sand? Right? This is a favorite substrate for tiger beetle larvae to live in. The behavior of grabbing the pine needle and trying to pull it in is also a clue, the larvae normally catch small insects and pull them into the burrow to eat them. I may be wrong, but this is my guess.
… Josh Lemons, 20 August, 2006 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
wandering wolf spider?
i found a hole like this in my yard... dug it up cuz curiosity got the best of me, found a wolf spider
… Andrew Meeds, 31 August, 2006 - 11:30pm login or register to post comments

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