Identify this bug!

[brigden]

My GF returns to her Santa Monica apartment after a business trip to find two "bees" in her kitchen. After finding the courage to leave her bedroom, she finds one of the "bees" dead and the other dying.

While on the phone, I suggest she look for evidence of a nest or hive, thinking she has yellow jackets as new roommates.

She doesn't find a nest or hive, but does discover a strange insect she describes as "larva-like, with little antennae." She believes these insects are the pre-metamorphosis form of the "bees."

She has killed nearly a dozen of the little bastards, including two of them in "bee form."

Anyway, you can obviously tell I know squat about insects and I'd like to help her identify her new roommates. She's away again until tomorrow and is dreading returning home to more uninvited guests.

Below are two crappy iPhone pics taken by her.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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[rivan]

It's a Brazilian Asthmatic Wandering Beetle.

 

[DamnRena]

tick? fly? crappy pics, can't really tell.

 

[Chunkee]

it is a Rhodesian Flying Beetle, more commonly known as "Fisher Price Flying Bug"

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
it is a Rhodesian Flying Beetle, more commonly known as "Fisher Price Flying Bug"

How could you be so dense? Any moran can tell clearly from the dark blob toward the center of the photo it's not a Rhodesian. Anyone with eyes can tell it's a a Brazilian Wanderer.

 

[KLin]

It's the very rare rat turd beetle. It's self defense mechanism of looking like a rat turd kicks in when it feels threatened.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Loch Ness Monster?

 

[CRXican]

2nd pic looks like a beetle

maybe a june bug

 

[Krazy4Real]

Those are some really horrible pics. Can't really tell anything from those.

 

[Tremulant]

I think that :camera:'s of the gf are required to identify the bug in question.

 

[SSSnail]

I think the crappy and iPhone pic is a bit redundant.

 

[roid450]

we have those here too mostly in the summer, crappy pics FTL, thought the uphone was supposed to be BAD ASS""

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: Chunkee
it is a Rhodesian Flying Beetle, more commonly known as "Fisher Price Flying Bug"

How could you be so dense? Any moran can tell clearly from the dark blob toward the center of the photo it's not a Rhodesian. Anyone with eyes can tell it's a a Brazilian Wanderer.

MAYBE...but with my vast experience in insectology, I'm gonna go with the fuzzy pic blur bug. The pics prove it...

Everyone knows this.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: Chunkee
it is a Rhodesian Flying Beetle, more commonly known as "Fisher Price Flying Bug"

How could you be so dense? Any moran can tell clearly from the dark blob toward the center of the photo it's not a Rhodesian. Anyone with eyes can tell it's a a Brazilian Wanderer.

MAYBE...but with my vast experience in insectology, I'm gonna go with the fuzzy pic blur bug. The pics prove it...

Everyone knows this.

I think we can all agree the blur in that picture is in sufficient quantity to be considered bulk.