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firftr911
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We had these at our site on Lynx the same time you were up there. I had one dive bomb me while I was reading in the hammock...scared the hell out of me, I thought it was a bat at first.
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snakecharmer
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It might be a sawyer beetle.
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woodpecker
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pine Sawyer Beetle....... another one of those envasive species!
Origin and North American Range:
Native to North America; transcontinental from Alaska throughout Canada (and the Northern United States) and southward to North Carolina in the east and New Mexico in the west.
Hosts: Adults are drawn to dying, stressed, or recently felled conifers.
Overall appearance: Generally bronzy-black; coarsely and roughly punctate; 15-28 mm long.
Elytra (E): Female- generally mottled with whitish patches; Male- generally completely bronzy-black.
Scutellum (S): Generally white (covered with white or ashy-colored scales).
Antennae: Female- faintly banded gray and black; slightly longer than the body; Male- all black; much longer than the body.
Legs: In both sexes, generally dark or slightly grayish-black overall
We had them on Jordan too. 07/24-25
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Trygve
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They're are always tons of them, all summer long.
Pine Beetles! They're friendly little guys, they like to crawl on your shirts.
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hndrsdnpce
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Thanks Snakecharmer!
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snakecharmer
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Once up on Boulder Bay on LLC I was sitting in camp and heard a sound like a creaky rocking chair. It was coming from a log, but I couldn't pinpoint it. Later I was reading a book about the wildlife of the BWCA and found a reference to the sound I heard as being that of the Sawyer beetle larvae.
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VoyageurNorth
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We call them Jackpine Beetles & they bite!
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HowardSprague
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Jackpine beetle?
 
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HowardSprague
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Looks like a couple different varieties in the photographs here. I thought it was amazing, how much the camouflage looked like pine bark. On a tree, I never would have seen it.
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hndrsdnpce
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Does someone know what kind of critter this is? They wouldn't nip you unless you accidentally squashed them. The big ones sound like a Sikorsky coming in for a landing and freaked just about everyone out on the trip this past July.
It looks like a beetle but I'm no entomologist.
Thanks!
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marsonite
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Looks like some kind of bark beetle.
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woodpecker
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HowardS
the camo looking one is a female (generally mottled with whitish patches)
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hndrsdnpce
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Thankya Woodpecker!
Those guys are tough too! Smacked and stomped they often laid there awhile then got up and went. We saw many easily twice the size of what I have pictured. Provided much amusement around the firegrate when one of those beasties flew into a camper, lol.
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VoyageurNorth
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Yep, whether they hang out in Jackpine trees or not, don't know. But that is what I have always heard them called since we moved to Ely.
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