Pest Help late in flower - black bugs on flower

I’m pretty late in flower, like day 59. I noticed a black bug on my flower this morning before my lights shut off. It was alive and I’m not sure what it is. Tonight when my lights came on, I started looking around more and I noticed a few more. I got a scope today, ironically enough to check out my trichome heads to see how close we are to finish, but it came in handy for some up close shots. What’s odd is that these are on the flower or sugar leaves and when I take them off all but the one from this morning are already dead (or maybe just super stoned? ). Any idea what this is? Any suggestions on what to do? Thanks for the help!

looks like some kinda beetle larvae perhaps!

It might be "Aleocharinae" related to the Rove Beetle & a predator insect.

Is there any damage on your plant? Holes in your leaves or the such?

Hugo Phurst said:

It might be "Aleocharinae" related to the Rove Beetle & a predator insect.

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it does kinda look like a rove beetle, but any ideas why they’d be up there? My understanding was they’d stay down in the soil.

Ripen said:

Soil? Just curious.

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living soil. Coots recipe, it’s basically 1/3 peat, 1/3 castings and 1/3 Pumice. I do have a lot of life in my soil, I see various things in the soil, springtails mostly, but some predator mites and what I thought were rove Beetles (looked a bit longer than these guys) and of course some red wrigglers.

VaSmile said:

Is there any damage on your plant? Holes in your leaves or the such?

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none That I could really see. One plant is really yellow relative to the others but I believe that to be a nitrogen def, and that started weeks before I noticed a bug. I’ve just started to see a few more of these on my plants and being this late was kinda worried about this.