Like a wasp with no wings, but NOT a velvet ant...

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c_wag03 Mutual, OH Sep 10, 2013

Anyone know what this is?

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Sep 10, 2013

It is a beetle of some type. Cannot see it clearly enough to say what kind.

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c_wag03 Mutual, OH Sep 10, 2013

My first thought was beetle, but the only pictures I could find online that looked similar were wasps...it is definitely furry like a was or bee of some kind....but no wings....

Hope you're right...

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Sep 10, 2013

It's a large rove beetle (family Staphylinidae) - see http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/58961964 for an example. They are general predators on other small arthropods.

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