Guess this bug.

[dodolah]

Pinacatae beetle is the official name for the stinky one.
if it's inside your house, it's probably super worm beetle.
but, if you found many outside, i tend to believe it's stink beetle.
I doubt it's one the same. if it is, i have some serious hunting to do on my school ground. super worm for free? jk

 

[mczoo]

PT Barnum used a sign that said "this way to the great Egress" lots of people rushed out. maybe that will fool them. they don't look that smart or for that matter even super.

sorry could not help mysef LOL

Sean

 

[chamlover]

Like the pics in Dodolah post shows they really do look the same and i think i am going to have to go with stinkbug because i never free range the supers, i either feed them directly to the beardies or put in a cup for the chams. I can see maybe a few getting loose and pupating but i have had to find at least 10-15 and that was after i sprayed! As long as my chams wont' get sick by eating them, i guess i'll just kill them as i find them. I'm wondering if i could have gotton a bag of mulch with some stinkbug eggs in it. We have a very large tortoise cage in the corner , which is where we first started finding them, and my tort buddy was not feeling well so i bumped the temps up to around 90-95 day and night. I did find a bunch of yucky bugs in there at one time so i completely changed and sterilized everything. But my thinking is: it was nice and warm and humid, what more could a bug want. Thanks guys.

Debby

 

[ponders]

You could try poking it with a stick and see if it squirts. I would recommend doing that outside though and have it aim away from you! That would answer your question for sure. I think the stink bugs are rounder around the abdomen.

 

[mika]

You could try poking it with a stick and see if it squirts.

HAHAHA!! I second that!!

 

[mczoo]

You could try poking it with a stick and see if it squirts.

i also agree as long as you are poking it and not me LOL

Sean

 

[mczoo]

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[Chameleonboy]

it is a beetle also called a stink bug it can spray a stink smell from what i herd dont let him eat it they come out around this time and hey have a realy hard shell

 

[rcmike]

Most likely it is a darkling beetle (mealworm) or a close relative. They are pretty common in the US so it didn't necessarily come from food.

 

[Mintglow]

this'll sound like a stupid question, but are superworm beetles dangerous to chams? or can they eat them? i found one in cricket's cage one day and it dropped into a plant before i could catch it. will it bite him if he doesn't eat it first? CAN he eat it?

 

[mary prefontaine]

its a beetle of some sort

what kind of beetle id have to look it up with a better picture

 

[Tygerr]

this'll sound like a stupid question, but are superworm beetles dangerous to chams? or can they eat them? i found one in cricket's cage one day and it dropped into a plant before i could catch it. will it bite him if he doesn't eat it first? CAN he eat it?

Superworm beetles can be fed to your cham, but you won't find many chams that enjoy them. The problem is that the beetle gives off an unpleasant odorous secretion when it is threatened (pick one up next time and see).
It's not harmful to your cham, but it probably doesn't taste very good.

Also the beetles are quite large and have a very thick exoskeleton, so they're not ideal for smaller chams, and can be problematic to digest.

The beetles probably won't do any damage to your cham, but care should be taken with the larvae, since they will chew into anything (there was a story on here recently about a superworm larvae found burrowing into a dead cham - could have been disastrous if it were a live sleeping cham). They have also been reported to eat eggs and baby birds (Friederich and Volland, "Breeding Food Animals").
However, they do NOT burrow into the stomachs of chams when a cham has eaten them - that's a common myth. The digestive juices sort them out before they can get around to that...