#prionid

[herpsandbirds]

Shiny Green Prionid Beetle (Pyrodes nitidus), family Cerambycidae, Paraná, Brazil

photograph by Garden Eden

[onenicebugperday]

@odes2002 submitted: Found in Chatham, New York (Columbia County). Held perfectly still for the photo. Light shone through its abdomen, too

Big and beautiful prionid beetle! A type of longhorn beetle. This one is a brown prionid, Orthosoma brunneum.

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Two longhorned beetles in one night, at opposite ends of the spectrum. On the left, we have the teeny, tiny, Eupogonius tomentosus. No common name, and a really bad haircut ;-). On the right, we have the brown Prionid, Orthosoma brunneum, one of the biggest beetles you will ever see in my part of the world.

For scale, the Eupogonius is resting on a single "wave" of the shingle, while the brown Prionid takes up more than 13 of them (including its antennae).

[cosmicpoppies]

Just got bit in bed by some little beetle bastard

[compostt]

Beast in my kitchen

[ferretpup]

caught this brown prionid in my dad's house and showed my mom and she said ew. she's so bugphobic smh at her grown age?

[chaotic-minds-think-alike]

Rare bug post again showcasing some new guys I found the other day

For names I only know the field cricket and the brown prionid (big beetle) but there’s also a very small wasp and some kind of stinkbug here too; all of which I found in some pool filters. Because they were all still very saturated with water I pinned them as soon as possible and only lost a part of the cricket’s antennae.

Also a small story about the prionid: I once found one while camping and really, really wanted it so badly because holy hell beetle I’ve never seen before and they’re big. It was dead of course, brought to me by the campground owner while they were cleaning out sinks in this area so I fully assumed it had drowned. Here’s some pictures I took of it for reference at the time:

Obviously there’s some differences and I haven’t done research outside of finding out it’s name but some assumptions are maybe mine is the opposite sex? Or not mature? I’m unsure because these pictures showcase this one being larger in all aspects. So anyways, continuing with the story, I took these pictures because I was curious because again, new bug. I put it in a container with paper towels to keep it from getting rattled around because I planned to take it home to pin it. Come next morning and this beetle is very alive and glaring with a vengeance, it was surreal watching the way it moved. I ended up letting it go after a bit of observing because I don’t like the idea of killing it just to collect it.

[blubushie]

Hey Snipes, ya know the hell those are? These dudes annoyed me so much in July last year that I was staying home to avoid being punched in the face. Was it too late for June beetles, wasn't it?

Location helps with these (even if it's just narrowing it down to country) but I reckon it's some species of longhorn beetle, possibly subfamily Prioninae. My guess is Orthosoma brunneum, the brown prionid, but again this depends on your location. :]

[starry-eyed-butch]

I offer this brown prionid

UMMM BTW. if u give a fuck

[bugfarm]

Brown Prionid Beetle (Orthosoma brunneum)

[grubloved]

a large and upset man! brown prionid beetle, Orthosoma brunneum. turn the sound on to hear him complaining

[acornhoarder]

[onenicebugperday]

@beau-reblogs-assorted-stuff submtited: Very big guy (south of Brazil)

Excellent prionid beetle! Get a load of those snippers. 10/10

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Peek-a-boo!

(note to self: check shingles on shed for signs of warping :-))

[notmanywords]

This Brown Prionid beetle let me know I when I got too close - it started squeaking and dancing in what I'm sure it thought was a very threatening display. So. Cute. Sorry for pestering you, friend! . . #longhornbeetle #brownprionid #orthosomabrunneum #beetles #maryland #nativebeetle

[en-vens]

So I fell asleep in my living room last night and what I thought was my cat playing with my foot to wake me up, was actually this beetle the size of my thumb, crawling around on me. I had no idea what the fuck it was, so I looked online. It's called Orthosoma brunneum; Brown Prionid. These things are interesting actually, they're somewhat rare and are supposedly kinda new to CT, they don't eat when they're in they're adult stage and are completely harmless, they're only defense is the squeaky sound they make with they're back legs. They're whole point when they're adults is to find warm/humid spots to lay eggs in like trees and poles. Besides all that, there's not much info on them. All in all, I don't want to find any more in my house, I was nice to this one and let it go, but if I find more.. they're dead. #bug #bugs #beetles #beetle