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08/04/2007 05:25PM (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
Does someone know what kind of critter this is? They wouldn't nip you unless you accidentally squashed them. The big ones sound like a Sikorsky coming in for a landing and freaked just about everyone out on the trip this past July.
It looks like a beetle but I'm no entomologist.
Thanks!
It looks like a beetle but I'm no entomologist.
Thanks!
Jimi
08/04/2007 06:28PM
We had these at our site on Lynx the same time you were up there. I had one dive bomb me while I was reading in the hammock...scared the hell out of me, I thought it was a bat at first.
"We are the people our parents warned us about"
08/04/2007 07:28PM
pine Sawyer Beetle....... another one of those envasive species!
Origin and North American Range: Native to North America; transcontinental from Alaska throughout Canada (and the Northern United States) and southward to North Carolina in the east and New Mexico in the west. Hosts: Adults are drawn to dying, stressed, or recently felled conifers. Overall appearance: Generally bronzy-black; coarsely and roughly punctate; 15-28 mm long. Elytra (E): Female- generally mottled with whitish patches; Male- generally completely bronzy-black. Scutellum (S): Generally white (covered with white or ashy-colored scales). Antennae: Female- faintly banded gray and black; slightly longer than the body; Male- all black; much longer than the body. Legs: In both sexes, generally dark or slightly grayish-black overall
We had them on Jordan too. 07/24-25
Woodpecker
Origin and North American Range: Native to North America; transcontinental from Alaska throughout Canada (and the Northern United States) and southward to North Carolina in the east and New Mexico in the west. Hosts: Adults are drawn to dying, stressed, or recently felled conifers. Overall appearance: Generally bronzy-black; coarsely and roughly punctate; 15-28 mm long. Elytra (E): Female- generally mottled with whitish patches; Male- generally completely bronzy-black. Scutellum (S): Generally white (covered with white or ashy-colored scales). Antennae: Female- faintly banded gray and black; slightly longer than the body; Male- all black; much longer than the body. Legs: In both sexes, generally dark or slightly grayish-black overall
We had them on Jordan too. 07/24-25
Woodpecker
"The way of the canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten."---Sigurd F. Olson (The Singing Wilderness)
08/04/2007 08:15PM
Thankya Woodpecker!
Those guys are tough too! Smacked and stomped they often laid there awhile then got up and went. We saw many easily twice the size of what I have pictured. Provided much amusement around the firegrate when one of those beasties flew into a camper, lol.
Those guys are tough too! Smacked and stomped they often laid there awhile then got up and went. We saw many easily twice the size of what I have pictured. Provided much amusement around the firegrate when one of those beasties flew into a camper, lol.
Jimi
08/04/2007 09:45PM
Once up on Boulder Bay on LLC I was sitting in camp and heard a sound like a creaky rocking chair. It was coming from a log, but I couldn't pinpoint it. Later I was reading a book about the wildlife of the BWCA and found a reference to the sound I heard as being that of the Sawyer beetle larvae.
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau
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