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longhorn beetle

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longhorn beetle

Beetle with extremely long antennae, usually equalling the length of the entire body, and often twice its length. Their bodies are 2–150 mm/0.1–6 in long, usually cylindrical, and often mimic wasps, moss, or lichens. The larvae, white or yellow grubs, are wood-borers, mostly attacking decaying or dead wood, but they may bore into healthy trees causing much damage.

(Order Coleoptera, class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda.)



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Swift's specialty is longhorn beetles, which have long antenna and prefer feeding on dead or dying trees and shrubs -- though this stealth bug settled for the hefty wooden ruler Swift tried to measure it with.
The emerald ash borer is only one of the many threats to the nation's forests, which are also being attacked by the Asian longhorn beetle, gypsy moth, beech scale insect, hemlock wooley adelgid and sudden oak death fungus.
 
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