What is this bug

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2020

  I think that might be a Violet Ground Beetle ... they eat slugs 😀 
  https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/beetles/violet-ground-beetle
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• joe.shimmin Posts: 214

  June 2020

  I can’t tell you what it is, but it’s not a stag beetle. I hope you find out!

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• sweet pea Sarah Posts: 129

  June 2020

  Joe.shimmin,I didn’t think the head end of the beetle looked like a stag beetle,I’ve only seen a male stag as well,not a female.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  June 2020

  We used to have them here. It's definitely not a stag beetle.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  June 2020

  @wild edges might know, if he's looking in. 
  It doesn't look like a violet g. beetle to me, but maybe it's the photo. We get lots of them round here. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• wild edges Posts: 10,497

  June 2020

  Tanner beetle would be my guess but they're not very common in the UK.
  

  https://www.naturepl.com/search?s=Tanner+Beetle
  

  If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  

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