Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: osage outlaw on January 26, 2012, 09:22:05 pm
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I found this nasty thing in one of my osage staves I was pealing today. I have never seen one like this before. It is a lot bigger than the other ones I have found and it is flattened out on the head end. This stupid thing went straight down into the middle of the stave. He died a slow and painful death because of that >:D Has anyone else found these?
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14461.jpg)
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14460.jpg)
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that sucks.i saw one in stim wilcoxes book.nasty bugger there.
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Never seen one like that, That is one creepy looking little bugger
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Never seen one like that, That is one creepy looking little bugger
Really creepy when you see the pic of it and read his tag line at the same time.... :o >:D
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Really creepy when you see the pic of it and read his tag line at the same time.... :o >:D
No doubt. ;D
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i've seen them in my osage and mulberry. i think that's the woodboring wasp larva.
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We call those flat heads and we break up rotting logs to find them, they get twice that size. Catfish love them. They are great trot line bait. First time I have seen one in osage, though.
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Thats a Buprestidae, flat head borer. A nout 150 species. Its a beetle larvae.
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Beat me to it Bill ;D
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Yes I killed a couple of those today in an osage stick I had in the garage.
I knew they were there because I could here them clicking as they were eating.
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I have actually heard old mesquite logs crawling with those borer larvae. I remember hearing the faint sound coming from a downed mesquite tree as I walked up to it, then noticed fine sawdust falling to ground from the log. Pretty voracious little buggers. The sound was loud once you were next to the tree. Sucks to find it in yer osage.
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That's one nice thing about where I live. It gets darn cold, and their isn't any osage, but there also isn't much borers and the like. They're around, but not in abundance, storing staves outside wouldn't be a death sentence for them around here.
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Thats what I've always seen in osage...and they do go straight down through the heartwood. >:(
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I hate them things. >:( >:(
Pappy
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"Kill it with fire!"
Ugly little bugger.
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Send that sucker to the Taxidermist and call Pope and Young... whoa NASTY!!
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I've seen a smaller version in the sapwood of ashe juniper. The beetle is quite striking. Haven't seen one in osage. The ones I've seen in mesquite were fat buggers and didn't have the flat heads.
Some of the boring beetles around here look like this:
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Yeah I've seen them too. Not in my bow wood because I debark after I harvest, but I have seen them in my fire wood. I found one about a month ago I should have taken a picture of, it was really big and fat, I would say easily it was 3/8" in diameter and was 3" long. He had obviuosly been feasting for a while. I don't recall it being a flathead though. It was a borer of some type and needless to say he cut a large swath in that osage log. Danny
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He had to have been in the tree before I cut it. I was ripping the bark and sapwood off to store it when I found it. I have only found a few borers and most were small, less than an inch long, and they stayed in the first ring or two. This thing ate a hole about 1/4" wide and several inches deep. I hope that is the last one I find.
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You better hope you didnt send me any of those nasty buggers Clint! If my stash gets exploited Im driving down to Rising Sun and replenishing my stock buddy.
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Yours should be good. I found that bugger on a piece that I just brought inside. Peal and seal it and let me know just to be sure ;)
Ain't it too cold up there for these critters?
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I thought maybe they would freeze out, but I was told otherwise. I have found a few tunnels in some staves, but no bugs dead or alive anywhere around. I talked with Matt W and he has had staves stored up here for 25 years in his barn with zero bugs? Im not chanceing it, so Im spraying them down once a month all summer long.
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i call them things osage leach...that thing is big...you should get it mounted..LOL...john
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Good Lord! That wasn't in your stash from the Monster Tree was it?!?!?!
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Yes it was! But one out of ???? isn't too bad. It was in the last handful of staves. If everything goes smooth tomorrow, I should finish up and I'll post an update with the final count and the winner of the contest.
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Yes it was! But one out of ???? isn't too bad. It was in the last handful of staves. If everything goes smooth tomorrow, I should finish up and I'll post an update with the final count and the winner of the contest.
I'm very happy to hear that it was one of the last. I'd be heartbroken to think that you'd lose a bunch of those staves after working so bloody hard with your buddies to harvest it. That'd be a shame.
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I'd be heartbroken too. I really lucked out. I think I was somewhere in the 80 count range when I started to find a few small borers. This is the only big one and the only one that went deep enough to cause damage. That thing really creeped me out when I pulled him from the hole.
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Man that looks like a cobra worm.
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I'm very happy to hear that it was one of the last. I'd be heartbroken to think that you'd lose a bunch of those staves after working so bloody hard with your buddies to harvest it. That'd be a shame.
That's silly. The stave would still be fine trading fodder for South Dakota bowyers. >:D
George
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I'm very happy to hear that it was one of the last. I'd be heartbroken to think that you'd lose a bunch of those staves after working so bloody hard with your buddies to harvest it. That'd be a shame.
That's silly. The stave would still be fine trading fodder for South Dakota bowyers. >:D
George
I'd rather take one of his worst Swiss-cheesed borer hotels than one of your devil's corkscrews! >:D >:D
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Ah, I feel better having read that. I was worried you'd taken sick or something.
George
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Yes - it's a pain to find these in your wood (could get even worse if you don't find them) - Just try to remember that they are a part of the great circulation of organic material in nature ;)
Without this sort of creatures, breaking down the fallen trees into fertilizer, we'd be in trouble :laugh: