# Identify this bug?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bug/509815
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 12, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bug/509815 "2009-09-12T12:55:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bug/509815/1 "2009-09-12T12:55:06Z")
I saw a new one - just under an inch long including feelers, black, looked like six legs, and it had three narrow white stripes on its tail end, horizontal (not vertical). A beetle of some kind? Rather stylish, for a bug. I live in Central NY State, not growing anything edible in my garden.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bug/509815/2 "2009-09-13T14:29:39Z")
You could start [here.](http://www.whatsthatbug.com/)
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bug/509815/3 "2009-09-13T14:49:24Z")
Or at [Bug Guide](http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740).
There are too many stripey beetles to pick one out without a picture, unless it happens to be very common in your area.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bug/509815/4 "2009-09-13T15:16:28Z")
Well, thanks for the links, if it rains out today, I’ll have all afternoon to research creepy crawlies, lol!