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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 707853" data-attributes="member: 16749">Beetles have a complete metamorphosis, like butterflies.  The juvenile form is a larva, which looks nothing like the adult beetle.  The middle stage is a pupa, and from that emerges the final adult form.  That said, what you've posted here does not look like a beetle, at least not an adult form thereof.  It could be the larval form of some beetle, or it could be some entirely different sort of insect.  Whatever it is, I think it looks more likely to be a mature form of some insect that is not a beetle, than that it is a larval form of a beetle.  It's definitely not a mature beetle.</blockquote>