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Post by Wolfman on Jun 22, 2006 22:59:22 GMT -6
Found this frigging huge monstrosity in my front yard awhile ago. Thing would choke a 5lb channel cat!  Thing is 2 1/2 inchs long and right at 1 inch wide. It BITES to! Several times!...lol It's a Female Bigant Root Borer. Genus: Prionus Family: Cerambycidae Order: Coleoptera Class: Insecta (Hexapoda) Photo by Jerry A Payne www.invasive.org/browse/subimages.cfm?sub=2135 |
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Post by slabmaster on Jun 22, 2006 23:02:42 GMT -6
saddle it and break it to ride .lol
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Post by Wolfman on Jun 22, 2006 23:17:59 GMT -6
d@mn things meaner then a green broke stallion! Bites like one to!
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Post by Whiskers on Jun 22, 2006 23:40:26 GMT -6
Once in a while I run across a huge one like that.
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Post by Critter on Jun 22, 2006 23:42:01 GMT -6
Almost as big as some of those palmetto bugs I used to see when I lived in florida..lol
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Post by Wolfman on Jun 23, 2006 0:14:00 GMT -6
Thing is i've lived here in MO for 45 years and can't remember ever seeing one of these things. After looking at the pics i think ive seen a male or two(smaller) but never a female.
I have seen their larve in old rotten logs now that i've seen the pics. Would make som cat bait maybe...lol
I don't think theres a cat mean enough to eat an adult female though...lol
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Post by Whiskers on Jun 23, 2006 0:25:11 GMT -6
I think that looks like what I've seen.I see another BIG beetle of some kind outside once in a while,must be 3 or 4 inches long.Don't know what it is I've never seen them before until the last 2 years.Not sure if it's a beetle but something in that line.
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Post by Wolfman on Jun 23, 2006 0:38:26 GMT -6
I thought this might of been a new invasive species. Guess it is an invasive species of some type but i guess it's been around awhile. Eats the roots and kills the tree's.
Guess ill go turn it loose. Jul;y and august is when your supposed to see em the most or so they say.
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