asian longhorned beetles

Photo by Sarah Beth Yoder – Boston University Washington News Service

November 12, 2008 – Steven Lingafelter, research entomologist for the USDA’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory, examines an Asian Longhorned Beetle under a microscope in his lab at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.


November 12, 2008 – A display case at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. shows the differences between the male and female Asian Longhorned Beetles.

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Frass, digested, fecal material left behind Asian Longhorned Beetles bore into wood

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Asian Longhorned Beetle pupal case


Asian Lonhorned Beetle larva in the quarantine lab for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit in Delaware


Asian Longhorned Beetle larvae inside the quarantine lab for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit in Delaware

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Asian Longhorned Beetle larvae inside the quarantine lab for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit in Delaware


Asian Lonhorned Beetle adult in pupal chamber in the quarantine lab for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit in Delaware


Beetle exits wood, leaving behind dime-sized exhit holes


November 14, 2008 - Michael Smith, research entomologist for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit, and Ellen Aparicio, biological science lab technician for the unit examine a portion of a tree that used to be infested with Asian Longhorned Beetles at the USDA facility in Delaware.


Wooden Logs inside the the USDA Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit’s insectary


November 14, 2008 - Michael Smith, research entomologist for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit, and Ellen Aparicio, biological science lab technician for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit, survey logs infested with potential native parasites in the insectary at the USDA facility in Newark, Delaware.

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Jeff Wildonger, a lab technician for the USDA's Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit, examines an Asian longhorned beetle in the quarantine lab.

Jeff Wildonger, a lab technician for the USDA's Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit, examines an Asian longhorned beetle in the quarantine lab.



Asian Longhorn Beetle cages in the quarantine lab for the USDA's Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit in Delaware.


Experiments with the Asian Longhorned Beetle inside the quarantine lab for the USDA’s Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit in Delaware.


Jeff Wildonger, a lab technician for the USDA's Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Unit, examines a parasite in the quarantine lab.


A probing parasite