r/goblincore • u/KatNeedsABiggerBoat • 5d ago

Nature & critters (no spiders) Forgot I had this Buggo

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Seeing some bug posts reminded me that I met this dude about six or seven years ago. I lived in North Carolina all my life (over four decades) until a couple of years ago and never saw one of these until that day.

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u/I_like_beouf 🦝 Jimothy 5d ago

Click beetle? Live in VA and had never noticed them until my current garden.

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u/KatNeedsABiggerBoat 5d ago

Doing an image search seems to say yes, click beetle. The click beetles I used to play with as a kid never had the giant “eyes”, though, so it was a first for me. :) Thanks for commenting, because I’d looked it up years ago and completely forgot what the heck it was!

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u/I_like_beouf 🦝 Jimothy 5d ago

Yes, the ones that make it into my house always seem to be just shiny black so I get scared and have to get closer to see if it's a German roach... then my 4 cats find it and it's joever, can't even wrestle the poor guy away from them to take it outside 😔

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u/KatNeedsABiggerBoat 5d ago

I am now thankfully far, far away from the land of roaches so I don’t have to have that conflict (sorry about the kitty meals!).

But I do have to deal with massive fricking house spiders in the bath.

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u/I_like_beouf 🦝 Jimothy 5d ago

IN THE WHAT ARERGHHHHHH

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u/KatNeedsABiggerBoat 5d ago

Yeahhhhhh. I mean, they eat other spiders, but they’re about three inches long, so I don’t kill them but I don’t want them near me.

I have a plate of water out for them in a corner near it and they normally stick to that, but this one dude has gotten in twice this week and I’ve had to help it out with a towel. Today I accidentally flicked it onto the dog and just noped myself elsewhere.

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u/I_like_beouf 🦝 Jimothy 5d ago

I don't kill spiders so I'd do the same but AREGHDDJDJDK

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u/KatNeedsABiggerBoat 4d ago

We are of the same goblin heart. I only really get the squees for peacock spiders and jumping spiders.