Report #4453 - Report: Golden Buprestid Beetle (Buprestis aurulenta)

Golden Buprestid Beetle (Buprestis aurulenta) on Jul 23, 2022

Originally reported as Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis)

Submitter has sample

Description of specimen

Mature insect was dead in shed 400 ft from Bannister creek.

Commentary

Thank you for your report! This is not EAB. It's a native member of the Metallic Wood-boring beetle family, the Golden Buprestid, Buprestis aurulenta. These beetles are larger and less slender than EAB. They are not tree killers. Their grubs live in dead conifers.

There are a number of iridescent green look-alike beetles in Oregon that are not pests. I am attaching a link to the ODA EAB webpage with some photos of other Oregon insects that could be mistaken for EAB

https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/IPPM/SurveyTreatment/Documents/EABLookAlikes.pdf

Thanks for being on the lookout!

Tom Valente
July 25, 2022, 1:32 a.m.

Location

45.5598226, -122.8056794. We have wooded property with Bannister creek on it. Also have ash trees including one that I suspect is a couple of hundred years old. The woods are Douglas Fir dominant with ash, willow, plum, cedar (many have died and are dying), on the creek. Thimbleberry and salmon berry vine maple cascara few yew. Douglas fir and big leaf maple further away from creek. I found a dead emerald ash borer inside a shed that had the doors left open over night. I have kept the insect.

Catherine Glass
Stormsrneat@gmail.com.

Golden Buprestid Beetle (Buprestis aurulenta) on Jul 23, 2022

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