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Nice action Jayems. You should freelance to the media (if you don't already.)
This was outside of my truck. Like an inch long. I don't know what the hell it is;
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As Mr.Mastadonfarm said, tar sand beetle.. Growing up in Fort McMurray you'd find them every summer just stuck to different things.
Between years of uni I'd go work in Fort Mac and find those things in my coveralls at the end of the day... Disgusting, I can't stand them..
I got swarmed by about 20 of them one day on site, it was just a weird black group of bugs flying towards me. By the time I realized what they were I started to run to the truck, but I was in sand with work boots... They got in the truck stuck to me... Gross..
Oh they apparently bite real hard too... Never experienced that myself though...
I can't stand those things..
I always wondered what they were really called as well...
Apparently they are sawyer beetles. Except the pictures of the white spotted sawyer (which is what some say tar sand beetles are doesn't seem quite right), but they look pretty close so it's likely a sawyer beetle of some kind).