Beetles on my strawberries, Help

[chipo]

I have just found these beetle like things on one of my strawberry plants, I blew them off and the stepped on them, so those particular one won't be coming back.

Does anyone know what they are and will they damage my strawberries.

[GooseyLoosey]

There are lots of things that love eating strawberries. As far as I know, the reason they are called stawberries is that the traditional way of growing them was to put a layer of straw between the soil and the fruit to try and stop things crawling up an eating them. We have a very thick layer of bark mulch under ours and it does work (a bit). Good luck!