Speedy Boi, Pt. 2 - _TNY_1329
While out on a walk at my mom's summer house at Saltarö in Stockholm's archipelago, we passed a place where beavers had been quite busy and felled a lot of trees. On one of these I noticed two grey tiger longhorns (Rusticoclytus rusticus), a woodboring species which is diurnal and quite fast. No doubt it was hoping to bore into this tree to lay eggs (or if it were males, to find a date).
The beetle kept running back and forth along the the log a couple of times, stopping every half a meter or so, just long enough for me to almost get within shooting range and then run off again.
Finally it stopped for just a little longer and allowed me to snap a couple of shots though.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51235533472/
Speedy Boi, Pt. 2 - _TNY_1329
While out on a walk at my mom's summer house at Saltarö in Stockholm's archipelago, we passed a place where beavers had been quite busy and felled a lot of trees. On one of these I noticed two grey tiger longhorns (Rusticoclytus rusticus), a woodboring species which is diurnal and quite fast. No doubt it was hoping to bore into this tree to lay eggs (or if it were males, to find a date).
The beetle kept running back and forth along the the log a couple of times, stopping every half a meter or so, just long enough for me to almost get within shooting range and then run off again.
Finally it stopped for just a little longer and allowed me to snap a couple of shots though.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51235533472/