Thursday, 1 November 2018

Longhorn or longicorn

Which ever way this beetle is named  the long part is certainly true and I found this one on a wall in the house and it most likely came out of one of our firewood logs where it has changed from its larva to the adult beetle.


This species of the Longhorn group is the Large Brown Longhorn or Longicorn Beetle Xystrocera virescens and the larvae reportedly feed in various species of Acacia tunnelling through the wood.

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