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May 9, 2016 6:50 AM CST
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Name: Terri Osipov
Rome, Georgia (Zone 7b)
Every day in the yard is a GOOD day
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Help?

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"Speak to the Earth and it shall teach Thee" Job 12:8
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May 9, 2016 7:06 AM CST
Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK
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It looks like a Tumbling Flower Beetle in the family Mordellidae.

They are quite small and I doubt do any damage worth worrying about, I've only rarely seen one at a time.

This looks like Tomoxia but I can't be sure, and it looks like a male (lacking pointed ovipositor).

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

Tomoxia lineella doesn't appear to be in Georgia, this pdf might give you clues.

Mordellidae, the tumbling flower beetles, are small, mostly black, wedge-shaped beetles
commonly found feeding on umbelliferous flowers, often in great numbers. The larvae are carnivorous
or are found boring in rotten wood, and some are leaf and stem miners. One Australian
species is parasitic on a scoliid wasp.
The family contains 201 species and subspecies in North America.


http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/nald...
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May 9, 2016 12:45 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Terri Osipov
Rome, Georgia (Zone 7b)
Every day in the yard is a GOOD day
Bee Lover Dog Lover
Thank you, and I am a bit lost now
This fella is about the size of a grasshopper or half the length of my thumb...Probably a little over an inch long. Does that help a little more? Crossing Fingers!
"Speak to the Earth and it shall teach Thee" Job 12:8
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May 9, 2016 1:07 PM CST
Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK
Bee Lover Plant Identifier Organic Gardener Dragonflies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
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Yep, I'll be back!
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May 9, 2016 1:20 PM CST
Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)
Annuals Native Plants and Wildflowers Keeps Horses Dog Lover Daylilies Region: Canadian
Butterflies Birds Enjoys or suffers cold winters Garden Sages Plant Identifier
Could it be a Buprestidae?:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...
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May 9, 2016 1:31 PM CST
Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK
Bee Lover Plant Identifier Organic Gardener Dragonflies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
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Chalcophora angulicollis - Western Sculptured Pine Borer

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...
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May 9, 2016 1:35 PM CST
Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK
Bee Lover Plant Identifier Organic Gardener Dragonflies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
Cat Lover Garden Photography Butterflies Birds Spiders!
Well, it could be Chalcophora virginiensis Sculptured Pine Borer

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

Need to check what's in your area.
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May 9, 2016 1:36 PM CST
Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)
Annuals Native Plants and Wildflowers Keeps Horses Dog Lover Daylilies Region: Canadian
Butterflies Birds Enjoys or suffers cold winters Garden Sages Plant Identifier
I thought it looked like that one, but wouldn't it be out of its normal range? (That one being the western one, cross posted).
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May 9, 2016 1:39 PM CST
Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK
Bee Lover Plant Identifier Organic Gardener Dragonflies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
Cat Lover Garden Photography Butterflies Birds Spiders!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Chalcophora virginiensis in south Georgia ..

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

Chalcophora georgiana ..

http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

Take your pick! It's a Pine Borer.
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