Summer Chafer vs Ribbed Pine Borer

Side-by-side species comparison

Summer Chafer

A medium-sized golden-brown chafer that swarms at dusk around midsummer. It crashes clumsily into people and walls.

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Named for its habit of swarming around the summer solstice, filling warm June evenings with buzzing flight.

A longhorn beetle found across northern forests that develops under the bark of dead conifers. Adults are active in spring on freshly cut logs.

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Larvae create distinctive flattened pupal chambers under the bark, lined with coarse wood fibers.