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Looks like a larval stage of something but darned if I can figure it!
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Don't some species excrete a noxious chemical?I <3 mantids said:Some people first see them and think they can sting because they run around with their abdomen raised up. But no worries; they're nonvenomous
The species that article is about is one of the larger ones at over an inch, Staphylinus olens.It also emits a foul smelling odour, as a defensive secretion, from a pair of white glands at the end of its abdomen.