The Flat-headed Maple Borer is a large, elongated buprestid beetle with a coppery-bronze lustre and sculptured elytra tips that diverge in a distinctive forked fashion. It attacks stressed maples, birches, and beeches, with larvae boring deep galleries in the sapwood. Adults are crepuscular and can be found resting on wounded or dying tree trunks.
Habitat
Deciduous forests with maples, birch, and other hardwoods
Diet
Larvae: wood of stressed hardwood trees. Adults: pollen and foliage
How common
Uncommon
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