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Index of Subjects --089e0149bce20a200f04e25843a6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We found one these in the house yesterday -- an old house with a dry-laid stone basement. I'm thinking it's *Orthosoma brunneum, *the Brown Prionid. The sources I've seen are vague on the beetle's feeding habits and life history; it eats roots, presumably. Larry On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:20 AM, nancy dowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote: > This beetle was on the side of the camp near the roof peak when I > drove in yesterday morning. I knocked it down with a fishing rod, put > it on a stack of cement blocks and managed a few photos while it was > still. > > For size:http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9363794549/ > The metal portion of my truck key is 40mm long (a little over 1 1/2"). > A big beetle. > > A side view: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9366580936/ > > Then it stopped playing dead and got active. It pranced around > displaying its jaws and lashing its antennae about rapidly before > marching away: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9366578168/ > > I think it is a male Prionus, or Giant Root Borer, in the Cerambycidae > (Long Horned Beetles). Perhaps someone can positively identify it and > give me some info about it (food, life history etc). > > Thanks, Nancy > --089e0149bce20a200f04e25843a6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">We found one these in the house yesterday -- an old house = with a dry-laid stone basement. =A0I'm thinking it's=A0<i style=3D"= color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:1= 2px;font-weight:bold">Orthosoma brunneum, </i><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,= 0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">the Brown= Prionid. The sources I've seen are vague on the beetle's feeding h= abits and life history; it eats roots, presumably.</span><div> <span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-se= rif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);f= ont-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Larry=A0</spa= n></div> </div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu,= Jul 25, 2013 at 9:20 AM, nancy dowd <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailt= o:nancypdowd@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">nancypdowd@gmail.com</a>></spa= n> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This beetle was on the side of the camp near= the roof peak when I<br> drove in yesterday morning. I knocked it down with a fishing rod, put<br> it on a stack of cement blocks and managed a few photos while it was<br> still.<br> <br> For size:<a href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9363794549/" = target=3D"_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9363794549/</a>= <br> The metal portion of my truck key is 40mm long (a little over 1 1/2").= <br> A big beetle.<br> <br> A side view: <a href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/936658093= 6/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9366580936/= </a><br> <br> Then it stopped playing dead and got active. It pranced around<br> displaying its jaws and lashing its antennae about rapidly before<br> marching away:<br> <a href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9366578168/" target=3D= "_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9366578168/</a><br> <br> I think it is a male Prionus, or Giant Root Borer, in the Cerambycidae<br> (Long Horned Beetles). Perhaps someone can positively identify it and<br> give me some info about it (food, life history etc).<br> <br> Thanks, Nancy<br> </blockquote></div><br></div> --089e0149bce20a200f04e25843a6--
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