hosts: wide variety of hardwoods, favors hickories (
Carya) and persimmon (
Diospyros virginiana); larvae feed mostly in sapwood and to some extent in heartwood, adults often bore into healthy twigs for food and shelter
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has been reared from oak, ash, persimmon, hickory, mulberry, bamboo, elm, apple, honeylocust, redbud, black locust, pecan, pear, prickly ash, tamarack, poison sumac, grape, poison ivy, and Eucalyptus.
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