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Thread: Borers and grubs
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22nd January 2010, 05:27 PM #16
This little fella pictured is the result of the witchetty's we get in the acacias around these parts - he's about 5cm long - cute huh? . The grubs he morphed from grow up to about 6cm long and can drill a hole up to about 20x8mm usually just in the sapwood but in some timbers they go for the works
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22nd January 2010, 11:15 PM #17
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23rd January 2010, 03:50 AM #18
grubs
These ones I got out of some Lemon Scented Gum, just under the bark, I fed em to the lizard/skinks, they certainly liked them
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23rd January 2010, 09:48 PM #19
Yep I recognise them
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25th January 2010, 06:18 PM #20
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25th January 2010, 06:22 PM #21
They are another variety of longicorn beetle similar to the ones i just posted a pic of. will eat right through a large river redgum and they infest en masse and weeken large limbs to the point where they will just drop off. I have never seen them in casuarinas or any other "softwood species" but almost every type of eucalypt I have cut has had them nibbling away at them.
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25th January 2010, 08:03 PM #22
What about this little critter?
not the best pic - from the mobile, but I'm sure you get the ideaI love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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25th January 2010, 08:30 PM #23
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25th January 2010, 09:38 PM #24
FC they are a red/brown seem to have a hard shiny body, got some wicked lookin pincers!! Looks like they could just melt through timber
I love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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25th January 2010, 11:37 PM #25
I had some of those red/brown beetles in some mackay cedar, the borers where voracious holes in sapwood everywhere, u could hear them chewing and they left great piles of fras
Pete
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27th January 2010, 11:11 PM #26
yep thats longhorn beetles for ya. after I built my redgum table I could sit out there and listen to them chewing away
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