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This is so cool!!! Congrats btw, and those are some beautiful specimens !

I found this beetle in our living room last weekend when I went home from college. Any idea the species ? It's a new one to me. Found in Southwestern PA

Thanks for the correction Lucanus.

I just checked and that it is hardshell. It's awfully yellow in color.

Yesterday while going on a wild edibles hike, we started digging through some rotten trees and found this guy. I'm not sure the type of tree to be honest as there was no bark left on it for me to identify it with. However, were pretty sure this guy too is a long-horned beetle from the subclass Prioninae of the family Cerambycidae. The larvae (after measuring it with my Peterson's field guild to beetles of NA) was roughly and inch and half long if that helps, and was found int he northern panhandle of West Virginia (the little sliver between PA and OH) Any ideas what species though ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Found this guy walking back from our cafeteria to my girlfriends dorm and she was right it's a long-horned beetle. I identified the species it's Stenocorus schaumii. This is the fourth type of beetle I have found this week and it's only Wednesday !

Welcome Trond ! I'm pretty new too however, I have already enjoyed my stay here. Not only have I met some great people but I have learned a lot already as well. Definitely glad I found the forum and I hope I can help make your experience worth it as well.

No problem it could be worse, this species http://jenny.tfrec.wsu.edu/opm/displaySpecies.php?pn=630 Has a 9-13 year long larvae stage. That's insane. that's almost as bad as cicada's.

according to the information available at Washington State University, the larvae stage can last 2-4 years. They also have a lof of other information on the species found in the following link. http://jenny.tfrec.wsu.edu/opm/displayspecies.php?pn=640

I recently purchased 2 Dynastes tityus larvae from a.ojala (which are doing great btw). What i was wondering is how do you (besides size) identify the 3 stages from one another ? (pictures would be great) and does anyone know of any sites for doing this with other species, as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Wow I can't believe how blue those are. Nice job, hopefully the rest emerge soon. Good luck.

identified It's a diurnal FIrefly. Pretty cool. I didn't realize that there were diurnal firefly's. http://bugguide.net/node/view/3505/bgimage

Not sure what anyone else's opinion is but I think it may be this beetle http://www.insectsofwestvirginia.net/b/oiceoptoma-noveboracense.html

Hello everyone. I decided to go out in the field and work some more on my research project. Since my owl was no where to be found, I decided to dig through some rotten wood that was laying nearby. Any idea what kind of beetle this is ? I found it right where it is. I'm in the Northern panhandle in WV between OH and PA if that helps. .http://s1100.beta.photobucket.com/user/Phil_Carter/media/Beetle1_zpsa902f03c.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0 http://s1100.beta.photobucket.com/user/Phil_Carter/media/Beetle2_zps789bca1f.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1 Thanks everyone. I'm glad I'm starting to find live insects. I'm finally tired of winter lol.

For now, Dynastes tityus. I'm also interested in Bess beetles, and a few others.