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Offline osage outlaw

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Check out this borer
« on: January 26, 2012, 09:22:05 pm »
I found this nasty thing in one of my osage staves I was pealing today.  I have never seen one like this before.  It is a lot bigger than the other ones I have found and it is flattened out on the head end.  This stupid thing went straight down into the middle of the stave.  He died a slow and painful death because of that  >:D  Has anyone else found these?





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Offline seabass

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2012, 09:28:09 pm »
that sucks.i saw one in stim wilcoxes book.nasty bugger there.
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Offline Stiks-N-Strings

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 10:45:03 pm »
Never seen one like that, That is one creepy looking little bugger
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 11:27:30 pm »
Quote from: Stiks-N-Strings on January 26, 2012, 10:45:03 pm
Never seen one like that, That is one creepy looking little bugger

Really creepy when you see the pic of it and read his tag line at the same time.... :o >:D
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Offline dmikeyj

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2012, 11:32:33 pm »
Quote from: Lee Slikkers on January 26, 2012, 11:27:30 pm
Really creepy when you see the pic of it and read his tag line at the same time.... :o >:D

No doubt.   ;D
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Offline rkeltner

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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 12:02:31 am »
i've seen them in my osage and mulberry. i think that's the woodboring wasp larva.
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Offline Bill Skinner

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2012, 12:06:10 am »
We call those flat heads and we break up rotting logs to find them, they get twice that size.  Catfish love them.  They are great trot line bait.  First time I have seen one in osage, though.
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Offline rossfactor

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2012, 12:08:03 am »
Thats a Buprestidae, flat head borer.  A nout 150 species.  Its a beetle larvae.
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Offline rossfactor

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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2012, 12:08:34 am »
Beat me to it Bill  ;D
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Offline neuse

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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2012, 12:17:03 am »
Yes I killed a couple of those today in an osage stick I had in the garage.
I knew they were there because I could here them clicking as they were eating.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2012, 12:18:00 am »
I have actually heard old mesquite logs crawling with those borer larvae.  I remember hearing the faint sound coming from a downed mesquite tree as I walked up to it, then noticed fine sawdust falling to ground from the log.  Pretty voracious little buggers. The sound was loud once you were next to the tree. Sucks to find it in yer osage.
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Offline Slackbunny

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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2012, 12:28:07 am »
That's one nice thing about where I live. It gets darn cold, and their isn't any osage, but there also isn't much borers and the like. They're around, but not in abundance, storing staves outside wouldn't be a death sentence for them around here.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2012, 01:05:58 am »
Thats what I've always seen in osage...and they do go straight down through the heartwood.  >:(
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2012, 06:52:37 am »
I hate them things. >:( >:(
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Offline Matt S.

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Re: Check out this borer
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2012, 11:18:01 am »
"Kill it with fire!"

Ugly little bugger.
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