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Beetle Grub ID Big Bear, CA


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#1 Offline Zeiss - Posted July 18 2015 - 3:23 PM

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I was out walking around searching for whatever was around and decided to open up a rotting stump (I don't know what type of tree).  Found this grub in there.  I was wondering if some of you could help me identify the species.  I also collected some of the wood it was in.  The wood does have some fungus with it.  Let me know if it would be good to keep or what i should do with it all.  

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#2 Offline LC3 - Posted July 18 2015 - 8:05 PM

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That thing looks really cool. Kinda like a living intestine with a termite soldier head fastened on to it.



#3 Offline ohhhhh - Posted July 19 2015 - 9:50 PM

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very cool. that is a bark beetle of some sort, for sure. more than likely a long horned species. he is a little skinny though. probably early stage. how big is it? put him in a cup with some organic soil, wood mulch from the tree he was in, a few dried oats and some sod root. 


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#4 Offline Zeiss - Posted July 19 2015 - 11:09 PM

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very cool. that is a bark beetle of some sort, for sure. more than likely a long horned species. he is a little skinny though. probably early stage. how big is it? put him in a cup with some organic soil, wood mulch from the tree he was in, a few dried oats and some sod root. 

it has no legs anywhere.  it is about 2 inches to 2.5.  i have him in a deli cup with 100% the wood he was in.



#5 Offline ohhhhh - Posted July 20 2015 - 7:00 AM

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2- 2.5 . that things gonna be big. ( long horned beetle grubs don't all have legs). is the wood you found him in cedar? does it have a cedar smell to it?



#6 Offline ohhhhh - Posted July 20 2015 - 7:20 AM

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if he is a asian long horn he will look like this probably.Asian-longhorn-beetle.jpg


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#7 Offline Canadian anter - Posted July 3 2016 - 11:47 AM

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A species of longhorn beetle


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#8 Offline kellakk - Posted July 12 2016 - 12:24 PM

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I think this might be the larva of Phloeodes diabolicus, the diabolical ironclad beetle. I remember a few years back seeing a picture of one, but I can't seem to find it right now.

 

EDIT: Whoops, didn't notice this was a necro thread.


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