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The BugLady is always excited when she finds an insect she\u2019s never seen before – even more so when it\u2019s a giant, orange and gray \u201cHoly S@#&!<\/em>\u201d beetle. <\/p>\n

She was moseying along the trail at Riveredge Nature Center at the beginning of July when she saw a flash of orange in the vegetation. A big flash. She craned and fidgeted and crossed her fingers while the beetle crawled around, revealing itself by degrees. After posing for a few shots, it flew out noisily and landed on her jeans for a second, and then moved on. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a spectacular beetle, (Dr. John Hamilton, writing in The Canadian Entomologist in 1885 says that \u201cthis appears to be a rare Cerambyan, and among the choicer.<\/em>\u201d), but there\u2019s not much information out there about it (it is<\/em> big enough and beautiful enough, but apparently, it\u2019s not bad enough to warrant attention). <\/p>\n

To put it in context \u2013 with about 390,000 species (25,000-plus in North America), beetles (order Coleoptera) are the largest order in the whole
\nanimal kingdom, not just in the Class Insecta. Long-horned beetles (family Cerambycidae<\/em>), those darlings of the beetle world (because of their striking antennae<\/a> as well as their flashy, varied colors including blue<\/a>, yellow<\/a>, and orange<\/a>), number about 30,000 species worldwide with only about 1,000 in North America. The MLHB is in the Flower longhorn subfamily Lepturinae, a group of sometimes-dramatically-wedge-shaped longhorns<\/a> that hang out on flower tops by day. There are a dozen species in the genus Stenocorus<\/em> in North America \u2013 more elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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\nAt 1 \u00bc\u201d the Majestic long-horned beetle (Stenocorus schaumii<\/em>) is indeed majestic. It comes in two colors<\/a> and some are more chiseled<\/a> than others (the BugLady\u2019s MLHB was not svelte), and females are notably larger than males. It is mostly eastern-ish \u2013 bugguide.net<\/a> says New Brunswick to North Carolina to Manitoba to Oklahoma. A number of the search hits were from eastern Canada, in French. <\/p>\n

Cerambycid larvae are vegetarians; some are pests of living plants, some feed inside dead or dying wood, and the interests of many do not collide with ours. MLHB larvae feed\/develop in ash, beech, maple, serviceberry, and other hardwoods, and the adults eat nectar and pollen. <\/p>\n

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The MLHB was described by LeConte and is one of several insects named for German entomologist Hermann Rudolf Schaum, a go-to guy for all-things beetle in the mid-1800\u2019s, who wrote and corresponded prolifically with American entomologists. Schaum apparently believed that the Continent should be the clearinghouse for insect classification. In a history of American entomology called Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880<\/em>, author Willis Conner Sorenson tells us that:<\/p>\n

Schaum\u2026..objected to the notion that \u2018American insects ought to be described by American entomologists.\u2019 The result, he said, had been the proliferation of isolated descriptions, a practice that had been characterized by Schaum\u2019s colleague Erichson, as \u2018the nuisance of science.\u2019 Schaum regretted that American entomologists had added to this nuisance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Entomology as Blood Sport. <\/p>\n

 
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