Posted: 8/17/2007 2:20:30 PM EDT
F is this? It's on my porch now, and is demanding sugar-water! 
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Chinese wood beetle, they come into the country in the wood of shipping crates, Very bad invasive speacies, exterminate with extreme prejudice 
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I didn't know those used .22lr!!!  |
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The banded alder borer, Rosalia funeebris Motschulsky, is a member of the beetle family known as Cerambycidae. This family is known collectively as the long horned wood boring beetles. The banded alder borer is the only species of this genus in North America, occurring from Alaska to southern California and in the Rocky Mountains from Idaho to New Mexico. The larvae bore in the trunks of dead Acer, Alnus, Fraxinus, Platanus, Quercus, Salix, and Umbellularia californica, but are not recorded as economically damaging. The adults (Fig. 1) are elongate, flattened, parallel-sided beetles about 25 to 35 mm long. The body and long antennae are conspicuously black-and-white banded. The adults usually are encountered singly in summer, but occasionally they are attracted in numbers to fresh paint. The banded alder borer is not a pest and there is no need for control. Incidentally, adults of this species are highly prized by collectors, and retail outlets that sell insects to collectors charge an impressive price for good specimens. |
Wonder how much it's worth on the bottom of OdTs Boot??? |
than the one I found crawling around my kitchen awhile back.
Oregon Fir Sawyer |
Were you one of those nerds in high-school who was more interested in his insect collection than girls? 
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uhhhhhh, I don't want to know how you knew that... |
Hey Kiss my lips BUGS everybody! |
Nope. Google is your friend. |
It might very well be useful, but I don't refer to inanimate objects (or in this case a piece of code) as my friend. Not sure what kinds of "friends" you have, but it seems to fit pretty well with the bug-collecting nerd persona you've got going on there. On a not-so-sarcastic note, what did you search for to come up with that beetle from the info you gathered by looking at the picture? |
Black and White Spotted Beetle That in turn gave me this page. |
