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Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Apr 15, 2005
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Spotted this on a floor of a place I was working at, took a couple of pics then forgot about them.
It's in a wet screed thats set solid to cover underfloor heating pipes.
There was a cat that could get into the place so its possibly something the cat brought in, no cat tracks alongside them though.
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Anyone?
 

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Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
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Whereabouts are you? I have a very similar photo of beetle tracks in the Namib desert :)

Cumbria, Northern England.

I think the biggest beetle Ive seen locally has been one of those Cockchafer things and the photo was taken last May if that helps any.
I've never seen a Stag Beetle round here but that doesn't mean they cant be about, maybe?
 

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It looks like something of reasonable (relative!) weight. Whilst you say the screed was wet it has actually broken through the dried / set surface skin of the screed rather than sinking in.

A quick dip into a wildlife book suggests that the Maybug / Cockchafer is around 2.5 cm long and the tracks seem bigger that to me. I'm also intrigued by the parallel lines, I assume from some of its legs, with the separate sign further out from these.
 

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