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BeetlesPine Sawyer Longhorn beetle or neither?
My wife found this "little" friend of ours crawling around our bedroom in Virginia Beach and trapped it for me to see when I got home. I snapped a couple pictures and then let it go out back and took a few more that better show off the color. The first image I saw that was comparable looked like it could have been a Pine Sawyer, but now I’m thinking it’s some kind of Longhorn. Which is it?
Thanks,
Doyne
Hi Doyne,
Your two possibilities are not mutually exclusive. Longhorn Beetle is a general common name for the Family Cerambycidae. Pine Sawyer is a common name for several different genuses within that family. Your beetle is one of the subfamily Prioninae. In our opinion, it is one of two species. More likely the Hardwood Stump Borer, Mallodon dasystomus, but another possibility is the Live-oak Root Borer, Archodontes melanopus.
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