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Snail eating ground beetle
Scaphinotus angusticollis
44.504, -124.022
Field Notes
Description:
Large black, long-legged beetle that roams the forest floor; a predator. Not particularly nocturnal.
Habitat:
Mixed conifer forest; temperate coastal rainforest, very moist.
Notes:
Apparently they eat slugs, but my mother always called them carrion beetles. There seem to be a number of Carabidae beetles, and perhaps this is Blethisa oregonensa, but I'm not at all sure. It's a very familiar beetle in Oregon forests.
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