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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on August 11, 2014, 06:35:51 pm

Title: What do bears and catfish have in common?
Post by: Zuma on August 11, 2014, 06:35:51 pm

What they have in common is these little buggers.
I think the morphology goes like this.
The black beetle lays eggs (none in photos) that grow into the white
wormy looking larva (on the right) in my hand.
Then you go to the white squishy molting stage in the log pic. (2 creatures)
Back to my hand is the reddish looking beetle. That one is the last stage before becoming the black adult. Yummy for bears and catfish.
Zuma

Title: Re: What do bears and catfish have in common?
Post by: Pat B on August 11, 2014, 07:30:46 pm

Wood sawyer beetles. I've been sitting in a tree stand and heard them gnawing on a fallen log on the forest floor.