Where You Have Come Across Buprestids

[pannaking22]

I'm getting more into buprestids and I was wondering where people are finding them (location and state please)? If you have pictures or have already identified them, feel free to put that info up too! I want to get a good idea of where to collect this next spring/summer/fall and any extra info helps. I only have ~7 different species (maybe more once I get the others identified), so I want to really expand my collection.

 

[pannaking22]

Sorry, forgot to add in the US, since I know we have a few international members here (not that I don't enjoy your buprestids as well

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[LarvaHunter]

I found Chalcophora virginiensis in Florida at ft.lauderdale and other city's in Fla. I found them by picking the bark off of pine trees and once on the ground at a fair. What methods do you use to catch them?

 

[pannaking22]

Very nice species! I haven't really collected them, so I'm still working out good methods. I've found mine by peeling bark and doing sweeps of vegetation on the edges of woods. I did trade a friend of mine to get a Dicerca and a Chrysobothris though. Need to get those down to species over the winter. I know using a beating sheet is supposed to work well in the Southwest, but I'm not sure how effective it would be in the Midwest. Tree species/tree health definitely matters though, so that'll be something I'll have to learn.

 

[LarvaHunter]

Beat sheets have been used successfully by Florida entomologists with great success!

I am sure they are not prejudice to location, you should be fine, but yea, learn about the trees they attack and the signs on the trees and you will be good.