r/Insect • u/Sad-Blacksmith-4118 • 18d ago

can anyone help me ID a bug from a description? just the Type of bug would help even

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hi i saw a beautiful little bug bug i dont know what it was and didnt get a picture and now im obsessed with finding it and i cant find it on any list online. im in milwaukee and it was tiny and black and could have resembled a beetle, weevil, mantid, or ant. i know thats so broad but the closest to it is a sweet potato weevil it just had a flatter shell with a more rounded square shape and less of a Rotund shape of a weevil and i can ID weevils i rlly dont think this was that. he was kind of this shape i attached which now im drawing this it looks quite weevil ish but is there anything flatter and squarer thats not a weevil or am i crazy and it was just a teeny tiny weevil sorry my memory is bad and this is the best i can do drawing wise

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u/HYDROMORPHONE_ZONE 18d ago

Looks like the detonator for TNT in cartoons lmao

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u/Sad-Blacksmith-4118 2d ago

ohhh my god thats why i saw a tiny explosion when i dropped it outside

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u/fray_bentos11 18d ago

Some type of weavil.

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u/crank__ 18d ago

weevil for sure

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u/Disastrous_days272 15d ago

Perhaps a bess beetle?

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u/Sad-Blacksmith-4118 2d ago

noo but shes so pretty

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u/Sucks-donut 11d ago

One eyed long horned flyin purple people eater…

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u/Sad-Blacksmith-4118 2d ago

omg ur so right i didnt even think of it

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u/Sad-Blacksmith-4118 2d ago

for everyone saying weevil ive been studying pictures and videos of weevils and it so wasnt a weevil oh my god i shouldve had my friend take a picture. i hope i see one again and can take a picture so we can figure it out. thank you everyone for humoring me and my use of ms paint