I felled a pine tree that had died in the front yard Wednesday (the same day I cut down a red oak tree mentioned in another post) and today I spent some time stripping bark from the log lengths. I found lots of bark borers (Scolyt*inae) and longhorn larvae (Cera*mbycidae) plus 15 Corticeus, 11 of which are pictured here. I was happy to find these because I had promised some to Don Chandler a couple years ago. Perhaps he will be able to key them to species.

I had cut the tree no more than two inches off the ground and found all the Corticeus in the first foot or so of trunk. I'm inclined to dig around the stump and see if these beetles are under the bark that was underground.