Bug ID HELP!

[Jason B.]

So I was out back checking out the garden and messing around when on a log next to me near the wood pile there was a very strange looking bug. At first I thought it was a bee but it was moving too fast across the log, it chased down another and they started mating it was kinda funny because they were going at it like rabbits. It all happened kinda fast and my brother and I both had the same first thought but I knew it was not a bee because of their actions. I looked closer but still could not tell what it was as I have never seen a bug like this before.

Does anyone know what this is?

 

[x39]

Cylindrical hardwood borer.

 

[Joezilla]

Neoclytus acuminatus

http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/redheadedashborer.htm

dead on, especially with the mating description.
Also called a Red-Headed Ash borer

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2006/04/17/mating-cylindrical-hardwood-borers/

 

[Joezilla]

 

[KuRUpTD]

Joezilla for the win :thumbup:

 

[Jason B.]

Cylindrical hardwood borer.

Thanks, I read that its also called the redheaded ash borer and the more I read the worse it gets looks like its time to do some bug killin

 

[Jason B.]

Thanks Joe, those are the exact links I was looking at :thumbup:

I read that it can also attack plants and this has been happening to my hot pepers, think this bug could be suspect?

 

[Jack Wanamaker]

I'd guess Neoclytus acuminatus, the red-headed ash borer.

 

[x39]

Thanks, I read that its also called the redheaded ash borer

Yep, same Latin name different common name per National Audobon Society Field Guide to Insects & Spiders.

 

[x39]

Double post, sorry.

 

[Joezilla]

Yep, same Latin name different common name per National Audobon Society Field Guide to Insects & Spiders.

You got it!! Common names complicate the crap out of everything, which (I'm sure you know) is why they made scientific names.

Personally the common names are cooler than the scientific:

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis

but it has a much cooler name: Hellbender or Snot Otter


but then you can come into better scientific names:

cactus moth
Cactoblastis cactorum

or Agathidium vaderi a black beetle named after Darth Vader

 

[Masteroffajitas]

Perhaps a cross-breed of wasp and ant?

 

[Phantom Steelworks]

What...No bug porn pics???

 

[x39]

You got it!! Common names complicate the crap out of everything, which (I'm sure you know) is why they made scientific names.

Yes, another example is the Larch tree (larix laracina), which is also called a Tamarack, and here locally in Maine, a Hackmatack.

 

[KuRUpTD]

What...No bug porn pics???

 

[Phantom Steelworks]

Ahhhhh....There it is....lol Thanks!!!:thumbup: