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Mossclaw21 Kirkland, WA Jun 16, 2015

Yesterday this mysterious beetle looking bug appeared on our front porch, dead. It has colors like a bee, but is much, much bigger! I've never seen anything like this before. (I am in Washington state).

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Jun 16, 2015

A photo of the back would be more helpful, but I think it is a beetle in the genus Polyphylla, judging from the antenna and striped pattern on its back.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 16, 2015

Although there is more than one species in the genus Polyphylla reported from Washington, it most likely is Polyphylla decemlineata, the 10-lined (or tenlined)June beetle - http://jenny.tfrec.wsu.edu/opm/displayspecies.php?pn=640

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