larvae ID

[treefrog]

I sold a chainsaw of mine on ebay to a guy who owns a woodland containing ash and oak. He was trying to describe to me a larvae that he found on his trees. I don t know location of his wood but he just e mailed me a photo over. any ideas I ve looked about but most dont seam to be this dark colour.

 

 

[Jesse]

I sold a chainsaw of mine on ebay to a guy who owns a woodland containing ash and oak. He was trying to describe to me a larvae that he found on his trees. I don t know location of his wood but he just e mailed me a photo over. any ideas I ve looked about but most dont seam to be this dark colour.

 

 

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Ash bark beetle ? my eyes are not great it would be better with a close up.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thats BIG, this needs clarification.

[slack ma girdle]

Is that one or two ?

[treefrog]

I presume 1 . I ve now been told that this branch is between 20-25cms diameter and that once the larvae has been found on the host tree it survives for only 2 years max. I ve croped the pic he gave me to get as close as possible. I ll contact him for some more as i feel this is a interesting find.

[slack ma girdle]

What ever it turns into its going to be big, so it should make it easy to spot.

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

we need to find out what the longhorn grub looks like and fast!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

a possible connection? still looking for an image of the grubs

 

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[Warren Stirling]

Here you go, does'nt look the same to me but would like to know what it is.

[Jesse]

Here you go, does'nt look the same to me but would like to know what it is.

 

Looks like Cerambycidae larvae to me