Longhorned Beetle
( ) - Longhorned beetles can be found infesting unseasoned soft or hardwood. These beetles live only in unseasoned wood and have short life cycles. The damage caused by these species is limited.
"Biography"
There are several kinds of "sawyers" including, southern pine sawyer, white-spotted sawyer and balsam fir sawyer. The adults appear in the spring and chew holes in the bark of recently felled trees and insert eggs. The young larvae bore beneath the bark for about 2 mo.; later they enter the wood to make a deep cell through the sapwood and heartwood. The larvae pupate in the spring and the adult emerges in about 30 days to mate and lay eggs.
Treatment
Spraying trees with a pesticide mixed with an oil based liquid,\r\nsuch as dish soap is sometimes effective in keeping these pests from laying eggs on the trees.
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