Friday, March 20, 2009

I was riding around on my motorcycle , and ended up at a friends house and found this on the ground in front of his garage




My wife being the super sleuth she is googled it and figured out it was a Jerusalem beetle and it was big and creepy . About 2 inches long and it looked pissed . I take only pictures and leave only footprints , so I snapped one and left him to his day . I wonder what he did for the rest of the weekend . . .

5 comments:

luke said...

probably found a cat to carry away and devour at his leisure.

MUERTE H.C. said...

did you at least flip him back over mike?

Had those allll over growing up in Santa Ana in what used to be the river bed years ago, love sandy soil and eat almost any plant... also known colloquially as potato bugs.

Unknown said...

Looks like he wanted you to scratch his belly...

=mike= said...

I did try to flip him over , but he flipped right back over onto his back and just glared at me .

cantstayjose said...

mike i grew up in orange and we called those nino de la tierra (kid of the dirt) but i think they are potato bug