I don’t know what this is. I’ve never seen before. It was in some red oak. I’m just wondering if I need to let the extension agency know about it.
Wood worms ... Good fishing bait. Can send them this picture. I've sent Alaska interior department a few over the years. They appreciate & can use the help .
I reckon it was live. It had plenty of leaves. My best friend has had his land logged and that’s where it came from
Hmmmmmm..... Yes, let some smart folks who deal with those critters look at that in my opinion! I'm by far a bug guy...
Canadian border VT is correct, it's a wood boring insect in the larval stage. I'm not familiar with this species. If you have a cooperative extension nearby they'll assist you.
That looks like a carpenter worm or carpenterworm, the larvae of a moth. It can be found in red oak. There are other oak borers, I've seen some the size of my little finger. Chewing away all over inside a live oak. Heartwood, sapwood, they don't care. Some of them can be in there for several years chewing away until they mature, chew their way out to search for a mate and continue their specific life cycle.
There are also pinhole galleries in that split which may be from ambrosia beetles. Could be some other pinhole beetle also. I've found some that are like a wireworm and tough to squish leaving those same pinholes in red oak.
Just for grins and giggles I googled "spotted red carpenterworm" and at the bottom of this page: Borers/Prionoxystus robiniae - Bugwoodwiki if you click on the "button" under gallery at the bottom of the page there's a pretty good picture of one. To the right ( possibly depending on how your browser renders the page ) there is another button which is the pic of the moth.
Nah, I've just bothered to look up whether I should squish bugs I find or leave them be. Same with weeds, but I only know the ones around me.
hmmmm....I'll pass on that idea...lol...If I got paid like him I would eat a plate full. ....and I forgot to add that I would have a good beer or two to wash it all down.
I've ate some pretty strange stuff in my life and things in places I could't identify! "But" I'd have to be near death/starvation to eat that! With that said, Way back in my younger years where there was large quantities of hops/malt and water flowing I may have tried something like that once...
