thank you!
Location: Amman, Jordan
August 18, 2011 4:44 pm
thank you tons for this very useful website…
this bug was found in my back yard in the almond tree… it has sadly dug lots of tunnels in the bark of the tree, but i’ve never seen anything like this bug! it has a very sharp call when intimidated…
thanks for any help!
all the best,
Signature: YS
Longicorn
Dear YS,
All we can say for certain at this time is that this is a Longhorned Borer Beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and that they are sometimes called Longicorns or Capricorns. The larvae are wood boring insects.
¶ Posted 19 August 2011 § ‡ ° What kind of beetle is this?
Location: Granville, OH
August 15, 2011 11:44 am
Found on our deck in Ohio — bigger than other beetles we’ve seen.
Signature: Lisa Kelleher
Brown Prionid
Dear Lisa,
This magnificent beetle is known as a Brown Prionid, Orthosoma brunneum, and we have received a few identification requests for it this season. According to BugGuide, it: “Breeds in poles, roots(?) in contact with wet ground.”
¶ Posted 16 August 2011 § ‡ ° Safly?
Location: NW WA state
August 14, 2011 6:15 pm
I am in NW WA, found 3 of these crawling around and ovipositing on a dead grand fir. They have a short tail, but not as long as the ones in the horntail pictures. Their antenna are very long and curl when they aren’t exploring like this one is. They have a fuzzy head, but the body is smooth. Very interesting insect. Thanks for doing this site, quite cool.
Signature: Nature lover in WA
Lion Beetle
Dear Nature Lover,
Morphologically, the Lion Beetle, Ulochaetes leoninus, is very atypical, and it doesn’t really resemble any other members in its family Cerambycidae, the Longhorned Borers. This is only the fourth submission of this rare alpine species we have ever received.
Excellent! Thank you. My husband and I have been in the woods and up in the mts quite a bit and this was something quite new and interesting. We are at 400 ft elevation in thick regrowth of grand fir with some cedar, dogfir, etc mixed in. These guys were on a dead grand fir. Thank you for your great site and for responding so fast. My sisters will be quite interested also.
The subject should have been “sawfly” but for some reason I missed the “w”, though “safly?” makes sense too.
Looking through your website for the other 3 submissions, found one from another person in my area. Ours did this raising of the front legs also. The dead tree they are laying on has sawdust around it, thinking is full of termites so we were planning on dropping and burning it. However, we will leave the bottom part they were on for their eggs and larva to have and put the lowest rounds off in the woods, just in case there are some in there.
I find it odd that 2 of your listing come from high country, 2 from the Port Townsend area low country. Keep up the good work and thanks again.
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/03/flower-longhorn-deformed-cosmosalia-chrysocoma-we-believe/
Jean
¶ Posted 15 August 2011 § ‡ ° Georgia bug identity?
Location: Savannah, Georgia
August 14, 2011 6:10 pm
My cousin photographed this bug a few days ago. We would love to know what he/she is. It’s a pretty bug!
Signature: Jennifer
Rustic Borer, perhaps
Hi Jennifer,
We believe, based on this photo posted to BugGuide, that your beetle is a Rustic Borer, Xylotrechus colonus. According to Bugguide: “Larvae feed under the bark (occasionally in the bark) of hickory and other hardwoods, also pine.”
¶ Posted 15 August 2011 § ‡ ° Like our good friend Susan Lutz of Eat Sunday Dinner, we find ways to procrastinate. Susan now procrastinates by cooking and developing new recipes, like her Procrastination Spaghetti Sauce, and though we have other commitments, we frequently defer them by turning to all the marvelous email requests that are sent to What’s That Bug? We are supposed to be writing a letter of recommendation for Elizabeth who is applying for a Fulbright Scholar Award, and as the deadline looms upon us, all of the writing to date has been in our mind. We turned to an old computer for some historical records involving Elizabeth, and we realized that a marvelous photo taken by Joshua Stanley and Marnia Johnston of the Tarantula Hawk on Milkweedfrom our archives was there in its high resolution form. The photo predates both the acquisition of our new office computer and the site migration we underwent several years ago. From the current computer and our current WTB? access, only a thumbnail version of this photo was available, and we are now thrilled to republish the image in a higher resolution form. Just click on the photo to see an enlarged version. You can do this with all of the photos that were posted after our site migration.
Tarantula Hawk and Milkweed Longhorn on Milkweed
The reason we are especially interested in having a larger resolution version of this photo available is that we have become very interested in the complex ecosystem surrounding milkweed, and we have recently created a Milkweed Meadow tag. We want to propose a slide presentation and talk to the Theodore Payne Foundation on the insects associated with milkweed, with a concentration of Southern California species that depend upon Esclapias eriocarpa, Indian Milkweed, and other native Milkweeds that can be purchased at the TPF nursery. To bring our procrastination full circle, that is Elizabeth weeding recently in Elyria Canyon Park.
Elizabeth Weeds in the Elyria Canyon Park Milkweed Meadow
Beetle
Location: King County Washington State USA
August 13, 2011 3:26 pm
What is this bug is founding flying around my garden? Caught this shot on the trim of the garage while it was cleaning.
Signature: Greta
Longhorned Borer Beetle
Beetle ID email
August 13, 2011 3:30 pm
wow, just as I hit send moments ago, I saw a huge grammatical error in my post. . . possible to edit if you end up posting on your site?
apologies.
Signature: Greta
Hi Greta,
We received your comment on your grammatical error, but we find it so amusing that a Longhorned Borer Beetle was cleaning that we are leaving your original submission as is. We don’t thing anyone will think less of you for making an error that you immediately recognized. We try to instill in our photography students that making errors if perfectly natural, and the best photographers will recognize the errors and make compensations on the spot, either by reshooting or by making corrections during the processing stage. Not recognizing errors is a vastly greater problem than making errors. We believe we have correctly identified your Longhorned Borer Beetle as Xestoleptura crassicornis based on photos posted to BugGuide, however, we may be wrong. The range of the beetle is also consistent with your location.
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¶ Posted 14 August 2011 § ‡ ° Banded Alder Borer
Location: Winnemucca, NV
August 8, 2011 12:26 am
Taken at water canyon in Winnemucca, NV.
Signature: Steve
Banded Alder Borer
Hi Steve,
Thank you for sending us your excellent photo of the comely Banded Alder Borer. Though Nevada is considered part of the normal range for the Banded Alder Borer, we believe this is the first example we have received from Nevada.
¶ Posted 08 August 2011 § ‡ ° beetle
Location: Monmouthshire Wales UK
August 5, 2011 9:43 am
Hi
This chap flew into our kitchen last night attracted by the lights and we have failed to work out what he is. He was at least 2 inches long and gave several nips whilst we were trying to photograph him. It was a warm summer night in rural wales near a stream and river. Sorry the photos are bad he would not stay upright or still.
Signature: Heather
There is no photo attached.
Sorry had trouble sending the request.
Have attached some to this reply I hope.
Thanks for your time and interest.
Heather Morgan and family
Tanner Beetle
Hi Heather,
This is a member of the Longhorned Borer Beetle subfamily Prioninae, and in North America they are known as Root Borers and sometimes Sawyers, though that name can also apply to another group. We were not aware that any large Prionids lived in the UK, so we became obsessed with finding the identity of your beetle. After some searching, we discovered the Bioimages UK website and it contained some images of what we believe is your beetle, Prionus coriarius, commonly called a Tanner Beetle or Sawyer Beetle. The male individual was photographed in Surrey on August 3, 1975. The Prionids have pronounced sexual dimorphism and the sexes can be distinguished by the antennae. Your individual is a female. The Bogbumper website calls Prionus coriarius: “one of the UK’s largest.” Zipcode Zoo refers to it as a Sawing Support Beetle. For a beetled alleged to be found in Europe and UK, there is a surprising dearth of information available on the web, though there are some images. We cannot help but to wonder if its numbers are declining.
¶ Posted 08 August 2011 § ‡ ° 
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