#3445 · 🪲 beetles

Black Pine Sawyer Beetle

🇳🇱 Dennen-geelschildboktor ·Monochamus galloprovincialis

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
2. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
4. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
5. © Vytautas · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany:© Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
7. Ленинск, Челябинская обл., Россия, 456384:© Феодор Басилашвили · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Мурманская обл., Россия:© Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Voreies Sporades Skopelou, Alonnisos, Thessaly, GR:© gmellberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 46Н-02055, деревня Лесково, Московская Область, RU:© voynovskiyaa · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Pine sawyer beetle ( Monochamus galloprovincialis ), also referred to as the Black pine sawyer beetle , is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Olivier in 1795, originally under the genus Cerambyx . It has a wide distribution, occurring naturally throughout Europe and the Caucasus. It has also been introduced into the Canary Islands. It serves as a vector for the parasitic nematode species Bursaphelenchus xylophilus , and also acts as a host to...

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NL sightings 5iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,291iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).