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[Toddppm]

This thing landed on my neck while taking a break from riding at a club property we belong to.

Nope not it, very close it looked like, good thing it's not.

http://www.uvm.edu/albeetle/identification/index.html

 

[treevet]

This thing landed on my neck while taking a break from riding at a club property we belong to.

Nope not it, very close it looked like, good thing it's not.

http://www.uvm.edu/albeetle/identification/index.html

there is a dead on Emerald ash borer in our area that is an imitation that is even more emerald green than the real thing. real fast at the get away too.

 

[Lawnmowerboy48]

Pine Sawyer Beetle? I thought I had found ALB in my area till I did a little research.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I'd still drop it off with the DNR or what ever agency is relevant in the area.

 

[Toddppm]

Yes it was a Whitespotted Pine Sawyer. I tried to look it up and took me a while to figure out which is was, didn't see it listed as a lookalike on that page until the 2nd time I went back to it. The white spot at the base of the wings gives it away positively.

 

[prentice110]

The only good thing to come from that bug is the city of chicago took a load of wood away for me cuz I was in a contamination zone. The EAB just came to town at the end of last season. Not a good sign. Time to break out the last of the old mans stash of DDT. (hehe just kidding)