Big Black Bug
This BIG Black Bug is almost certainly a Pine Sawyer beetle. I saw him struggling in the grass, too big to go through, too heavy to go over. I attempted to coax him elsewhere but he climbed up my shoe and leg so I got him on the back of my hand, where he stopped, entirely content. Getting a picture was an exercise in contortion. He eventually flew away. He sounded like a B-17.
Big Black Bug
This BIG Black Bug is almost certainly a Pine Sawyer beetle. I saw him struggling in the grass, too big to go through, too heavy to go over. I attempted to coax him elsewhere but he climbed up my shoe and leg so I got him on the back of my hand, where he stopped, entirely content. Getting a picture was an exercise in contortion. He eventually flew away. He sounded like a B-17.