Buprestis confluenta
"Jewel Beetle"
This beautiful metallic wood-boring beetle conveniently landed on an open plant field guide being held by my friend,
Ruth Sulik, while we were walking through the BOR site along the river below Jordanelle Dam.
Bugs seem to like her. © Carol Davis, 6-23-2012
This beetle feeds on decaying plants and trees as an adult and bores through Aspen and Cottonwood as a larva.
Whitney Cranshaw and Matt Camper have written a fine article that not only tells about the Emerald Ash Borer
(Agrilus Plannipennis) but about many other borers including Ruth's Buprestis confluenta. © Carol Davis 6-23-2012
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