Anyone know what kind of bug this is?
Small cedar bark borer beetle?
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It doesn’t look much like a white spotted sawyer. I think it looks closer to the small cedar bark borer beetle with some of the hair on it rubbed off.
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Small Cedar Borer: lacks the prominent whitish thorax spot of the Dragonfly Lane image above. The OP lives in Shasta County, CA. The borer beetle suggested does not occur west of TX-KS-NE.
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White-Spotted Sawyer: Range (CA) is correct but The single white spot for this species is heart-shaped and occurs at the very top of the wing covers, not on the thorax. Also, sawyer beetles have antennae that are much longer than the body length, unlike the DragonflyLane image.
I am still working on the ID, just eliminating the suggestions as a starting point.
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KS_razerback came very close, ID-ing the correct genus.
I prefer Atimia dorsalis (no common name) that is strictly a west-coast beetle.
^includes discussion of A. dorsalis vs A. confusa
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So that one should not be at my location, thanks! I let it go, but I wanted to know what it was because if it was bad for my garden or fruit trees, I would’ve gave it to the chickens.
Thanks!
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