From the same bloke as yesterday, whom it turns out lives in southern mid-Michigan.This insect was '
found in 2006, dead, in my pool. I fished it out and took some pictures of it. It's about an inch long, with no wings (though it looks like it might have had them at some point). Because of the missing anatomy it probably won't be very easy to identify. The closest I've seen to this is a big black wingless wasp / ant thing that I found years before.'Hmmm
A very flat female Oil beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus.
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