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What is this insect? Looks bad.

IlikeplantsIlikeplants W Mids Posts: 756
in Wildlife gardening
I find them scurrying by the water butt and somehow getting into a bucket which is where this one was.
I was thinking earwig but his tail isn’t as pincer like 

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  • wild edgeswild edges The north west of south east WalesPosts: 7,549
    Rove beetle. One of the garden good guys that predate on pests.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Central Norfolk UKPosts: 77,479
    I think that's a Devil's Coach horse beetle ... the gardener's friend  ... they eat slugs

    https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/beetles/devils-coach-horse-beetle/
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  • herbaceousherbaceous E. BerksPosts: 2,278
    Rove beetle, definitely.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants W Mids Posts: 756
    Oh wow, they look mean but are helpful. I’ll look out for them and put them on the veg patch next time to catch some slugs hopefully.
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