large unknown beetle please help

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grits74571 Talihina, OK May 01, 2013

1" long very colorful was foung in a lawn dying

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND May 01, 2013

This is a ground beetle in the genus Calosoma. Known as fiery hunters or caterpillar hunters, they are voracious predators on other insects, especially caterpillars (including gypsy moth caterpillars), and thus usually considered beneficial.

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grits74571 Talihina, OK May 01, 2013

Thnx My wife had found it in the meanwhile but now I know to live and let live

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