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a strange bug
This stranger appeared in my home in Toledo, Ohio on February 21, 2006. The outside temperature was in the mid 20’s so I am doubtful if it came in from outside. On that same day(approximately 45 miutes earlier) my wife returned from the grocery store with Grapes from Costa Rica and green beans from who knows where. The bug caught my eye as it flew across the kitchen. It was an awsome sight and I don’t mind admitting it scared the hell out of me. Thank God my wife was not in the room when the thing appeared. I was able to capture it and confine it to a freezer bag with air holes poked into it. One antenna was broken and one leg was seperated from the body during the capture. Can you identify this bug and let me know what it is. Thank you very much.
Tom Simpson in Toledo.

Hi Tom,
We originally thought this might be one of the Monochamus Sawyers, and that Possibly it emerged from firewood. Eric Eaton wrote in informing us that it “is actually a male banded hickory borer, Knulliana cincta.”

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