There was a swarm of them on my unsplit hickory and ash. I thought they were wasps from a distance so I blasted them. That's not a wasp!! Never seen these..lol..
Try looking here: Yellow-Black Striped w/red "jumping" legs - Megacyllene robiniae - BugGuide.Net Looks like a hickory borer... KaptJaq
I saw that one kaptjaq, but those were yellow stripes, not green ones. With all the invasive species, especially beetles. One never knows.
Around here they just call them wood borers. The only place I have ever seen them is around the stacks in spring and early summer.
Do a google image search for both the hickory & locust borers and you will see variation in coloration from white to yellow to green.
OK thanks guys. I was alarmed at the size and how many there were.. They were very fast too.. I'm gonna get what little hickory I have to process done tomorrow and back to the stacks..
It is not the local (usa) borers we have to worry about, it is the foreign invaders that have no enemies to stop them. And yes, it looks like a borer to me also.
Unless you've got a lot of that species of tree! I believe I have the similar looking Locust Borer (which is active in the fall, vs the spring). I've been discovering piles of fine sawdust around some of my dead/dying locust. Perhaps they're attacking trees that are already dead/weakend, but I sure don't want another bug problem. I've got bark beetles attacking a lot of my pines as well. I'm just hoping EAB will hold off a more few years.
