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Old 06-07-2009, 11:21 PM
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Stone encased beetle larva?

Hi,

I saw this wriggling about on the wall today, looks to be some sort of beetle larva. I'm guessing Staphylinidae but I really don't know!

Taken on 6th July (I put June under the pics!) on my brick wall. It appeared to be eating from the bricks. The encasing looks to be small stones from the old limestone mortar between the bricks, but the tail looks to be covered also in darker stones.

Length approx. 7mm

Janet

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