What kind of bugs come out at night? (not cockroaches)?

Question

I just moved into an older home in Vallejo, CA. When I take my dog out at night, I see a few of these black bugs, but I don't think they are cockroaches. They are more narrow-bodied and they look almost like beetles. Can anybody tell me what they are...My fiance says they are june bugs and I shouldn't be worried, but I'm afraid they might be cockroaches and that grosses me out!

Answer 1

Your girlfriend is absolutely right!
They are June Bugs and they will fly in the Summer months.
They hatch under garden bed soil and parks in a cocoon type of sac.
They are decidedly GROSS, are attracted to light, are nocturnal but are extremely harmless.

Cheers from an avid Gardener who has had many encounters.

Answer 2

I have heard there are beetles that come out at night around Vera Cruz, Mexico area and that they glow intermittently while flying about, like lightning bugs. But they are 100's of times brighter.

I would like to see pictures of those beetles; sorry I do not have any other info on them.

But the most beautiful night sight in my life was in Williamsburg, VA near a creek with a beautiful wooden foot bridge on a foggy late summer night. It was on the Yorktown side of Williamsburg, a tourist spot you will want to visit at least once.

It was INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL, beyond words to describe. There was a willow tree, perhaps only 15 feet tall, not a big one. On each and every leaf there was a lightning bug blinking intermittently. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Thousands...

The effect was absolutely spectacular through the foggy night. More beautiful than any Christmas light decoration, even colors, no matter how finely done.

It was truly a magical moment, one I could treasure only in my memory because I had no camera.

The tree was twinkling randomly all over like some vanishing jewel you stumble across accidentaly, for a moment, not likely to be see ever again.

So far, nothing else at night has ever equalled that sighting.

Answer 3

There are literally thousand of varieties of beetles and it would require a microscope and an entomologist to identify the exact species. Many insects are nocturnal, not just roaches. If you are in CA, they could be roaches also. Not all roaches are associated with filth. Some live primarily outdoors. As long as they aren't coming home with you don;t worry about it.

Answer 4

A house centipede A priceless insect residing house centipedes (Scutigera) are widespread arthropods with long, flattened, segmented our bodies with one pair of legs in conserving with section. The house centipede is as much as a million a million/2 inches long and has 15 pairs of very long, very pretty much thread-like, narrow legs. each leg is encircled via way of dark and white bands. The physique is brown to grayish-yellow and has 3 dark stripes on maximum clever. although house centipedes are suggested each indoors and out of doors it extremely is the occasional one on the lavatory or mattress room wall, or the only by probability trapped in the tub, sink, or bathing room that motives the main difficulty. regardless of the undeniable fact that, those places do not look wherein they generally originate. Centipedes %. to stay in damp parts of basements, closets, lavatories, unexcavated places below the home and below the bark of firewood saved indoors. they don't arise via way of the drain pipes. residing house centipedes feed on small bugs, insect larvae, and on spiders. subsequently they are priceless, regardless of the undeniable fact that plenty property vendors take yet another ingredient-of-view and remember them a nuisance. Technically, the home centipede might bite, regardless of the undeniable fact that it extremely is regarded harmless to human beings.

Answer 5

Maybe it is a water-bug.