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Any idea what sort of beetle is very large + black - bit like a ground beetle but over an incn in length?

There are many possibilities, including:

1. 7+ ground beetles.
2. 3+ Carabus spp (Carabidae)
3. Silphidae (Carrion Beetles) -  2+ Necrophorus spp.
4. Buprestidae (Wood Borers) -  Capnodis tenebrionis
5. Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles) - Blaps mortisaga
6. Lucanidae (Stag Beetles) - Lucanus cervus, Dorcus parallelopipedus
7. The Lousy Watchman - Geotrupes stercorarius
8. Long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae), including Prionus coriarius and lots of others, 10+

Sorry I can't narrow it down any further.... they're all big & black & beetles!

:)

I never kill black beetles as I've always understood they are friend not foe, hope that's correct!

MM