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Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle

Lepturobosca chrysocoma

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    1 - Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle, Lepturobosca chrysocoma on Yarrow Achillea millefolium.

    08/19/2011 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park, Washington

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    2 - Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle on Rhododendron Cultivar.

    06/12/2009 Heart O' the Hills Area, Olympic National Park, Washington

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    3 - Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle on Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare.

    07/08/2008 Heart O' the Hills Area, Olympic National Park, Washington

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    4 - Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle on Oxeye Daisy.

    07/08/2008 Heart O' the Hills Area, Olympic National Park, Washington

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    5 - Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle, mating pair, on Yarrow.

    07/25/2019 Heart O' the Hills Area, Olympic National Park, Washington

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    6 - Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle on Yarrow.

    08/04/2016 Paradise Area, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington

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    7 - Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetle about to take off from an Oxeye Daisy.

    07/14/2020 Heart O' the Hills Area, Olympic National Park, Washington

Yellow Velvet Long-horned Beetles, Lepturobosca chrysocoma (chrysocoma means gold-haired). are common on the Olympic Peninsula. They range from Northern Washington State down into Mexico. I have seen them from around 2,000 feet elevation up to the mile-high Hurricane Ridge area and on Mt. Rainier between June and September. Larvae feed on decaying conifers and hardwoods.