Larvae of Long-Horned Beetles
Feeding on Populus spp.
(Cottonwood, Aspen, Poplar)

Species of Long-Horned Beetle  
Scientific Name &
Common Name (if any)
Comments (if any)
Agrilus liragus*
(Bronze Poplar Borer)
 
Dicerca divaricata*  
Dicerca tenebrica*
(Flat-headed Poplar Borer)
 
Grammoptera exigua bores into dead branches
Grammoptera subargentata  
Judolia montivagans montivagans  
Oberea delongi
(Poplar Twig Borer)
feeds on live branches
Oberea schaumi
(Poplar Branch Borer)
girdles live branches
Plectrodera scalator
(Cottonwood Borer)
bores into bark at base of trees
Saperda calcarata
(Poplar Borer)
bores into live & dying trees
Saperda inornata
(Poplar-Gall Saperda)
forms small galls on live branches
Xylotrechus annosus annosus bores into dead & dying trees

*Buprestidae

All species are in Cerambycidae, unless otherwise noted.
See Yanega (1996) and MacRae (1991) for more information.

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