insect identification.

[Crimson]

Does anyone have any clue what kind of bug this is? I saw it on a hike in New Mexico last week. I've never seen anything like it and a Google search didn't help.

 

[SpeedRacer]

http://bugguide.net/node/view/157614/bgimage

Blue Short-Winged Blister Beetle

 

[troy_mclure]

hereyago.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/690722/bgpage

 

[SpeedRacer]

Haha or that. I have no idea.

 

[Crimson]

I looked up beetles but couldn't find one that looked like it. I guess i should have looked harder lol.

 

[tim9lives]

I looked up beetles but couldn't find one that looked like it. I guess i should have looked harder lol.

Yea...googling "beetle" gives me much more respect for entomologist and the study of bugs.

Beetles are by far the largest order of insects, with 350,000–400,000 species in four suborders (Adephaga, Archostemata, Myxophaga, and Polyphaga), making up about 40% of all insect species described.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle

 

[Jack]

That's clearly the Southwestern badonkadonk beetle.

 

[AustinBR]

I bet Bear Grylls would eat it.