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Chalcophora fortis
Photo#45544
Copyright © 2006
Frank Guarnieri
Chalcophora fortis
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Belgrade, 44.5438, -69.7955, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
June 25, 2005
Size: 30 mm
Collected in bright sun, high on the trunk of a very old and declining, but still-living, massive Eastern White Pine tree (
Pinus strobus
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Contributed by
Frank Guarnieri
on 22 March, 2006 - 3:18pm
Last updated 21 March, 2023 - 10:14am
Beautiful work
only missing one sp. now - C. georgiana
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Phillip Harpootlian
, 22 March, 2006 - 3:32pm
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Chalcophora fortis
I saw this beetle fly across the yard and then land about forty feet up the trunk of a giant White Pine. Fortunately my kids have a tall multi-level tree house in the same tree. I think this is the least common Northeast US Chalcophora. Personally, I have seen only one other US specimen, from State College, PA. I've heard reports that this is really a beetle of Eastern Canada that only occasionally shows up south of the border but I can not back this up with any real data.
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Frank Guarnieri
, 22 March, 2006 - 3:30pm
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