Larvae of Wood-Boring Beetles
Feeding on Redbud
(Cercis canadensis)

Beetle Species  
Scientific Name &
Common Name (if any)
Comments (if any)
Distenia undata  
Euderces picipes larvae bore underneath bark of branches
Molorchus bimaculatus celti larvae mine sapwood of dead trees
Ptosima gibbicollis*
(Redbud Borer)
 
Rhopalophora longipes larvae bore through small dead branches
Sphenostethus taslei  

*Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-Boring Beetles)

Note: All species are in the Cerambycidae,
unless indicated otherwise above.

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