There are times when discovery gets a little too exciting, for example, when you come in the house after working in the yard, scrubbing at an ear because a gnat is tickling you, only to find a much larger...significantly huger and ginormouser bug walking casually around your neck! This Sculptured Pine Borer (Chalcophora angulicollis) was easy to identify because of its size: a full 30mm by actual measure. That's one big bug! After knocking it off me and taking photos of it on the hearth, I contained it in a lidded petri dish long enough to assure myself of the identification. I think I must have disturbed it yesterday when I took out some old cedar fencing. There are no pines in close proximity, and it was not designated invasive or introduced, so after Merry had thoroughly investigated the petri dish and was contemplating releasing it himself, I let it go outside.
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