Japanese Longhorned Beetle

Japanese Cedar Longhorned Beetle The beetle that I have chosen is the Japanese Longhorned Beetle, also known as Callidiellum rufipenne. It is a wood bearing beetle our of East Asia origin that was first detected in North America in 1927 at Vancouver, BC, and in Seattle, WA around 1954. In its native atmosphere, the Japanese Cedar Longhorned Beetle is considered a secondary pest, because it only attacks weak, dead, or rotting wood. The genus of the Japanese …

…beetles in general. I now know more of how beetles contribute to the ecosystem in. In this case it will be how the Japanese Longhorned Beetle (Callidiellum rufipenne) contributes in the breaking down of dead or dying wood, speeding up the process of breaking dead things down. Bibliography Yanega, Douglas. Field Guide to Northeastern Lonhorned Beetles. Illinois: St. Martins’s Press,1998. Calder, Andrew A. Beetles. Chicago: Prentice Hall, 1998 Creffield, J.W. Wood-Destroying Insects. New York: 1996