#brown prionid

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@odes2002 submitted: Found in Chatham, New York (Columbia County). Held perfectly still for the photo. Light shone through its abdomen, too

Big and beautiful prionid beetle! A type of longhorn beetle. This one is a brown prionid, Orthosoma brunneum.

[fivetrench]

Check out these two longhorn beetles I found recently!

Top is a broad-necked root borer (Prionus laticollis), and bottom is a brown prionid (Orthosoma brunneum, missing a horn ☹️)

Orthosoma brunneum is actually the only species in its genus, which is pretty neat

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Bug of the Day

Two longhorned beetles in one night, at opposite ends of the spectrum. On the left, we have the teeny, tiny, Eupogonius tomentosus. No common name, and a really bad haircut ;-). On the right, we have the brown Prionid, Orthosoma brunneum, one of the biggest beetles you will ever see in my part of the world.

For scale, the Eupogonius is resting on a single "wave" of the shingle, while the brown Prionid takes up more than 13 of them (including its antennae).

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Bug of the Day

Peek-a-boo!

(note to self: check shingles on shed for signs of warping :-))