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Cossidae: Prionoxystus robiniae - Prionoxystus robiniae
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Cossidae: Prionoxystus robiniae - Prionoxystus robiniae
Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, USA
January 9, 2014
Size: Length ~ 1.8-2.0 cm
Showing excavated new carrot.

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Contributed by Carl Barrentine on 9 January, 2014 - 1:33pm
Last updated 20 June, 2014 - 3:53pm

carpenterworms
Did you ever successfully raise these to pupation and emergence? I have three I'm raising in sweet potatoes. They're 14 months old now. One just shed yesterday after I moved them to individual new potatoes.
… shmohney, 5 September, 2021 - 11:31pm

 
Unfortunately, the larva...
did not make survive to pupate. :-(
… Carl Barrentine, 6 September, 2021 - 9:05am

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