About 1 inch in length. Found in late August on the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, CanadaFamily characteristics + particular features - brilliant metallic green with red line along outer and inner margins of elytra; bronze colour below. Surface "sculpturing" of elytra characterized by wide spaces separated by narrow ridges. This species is the most damaging in its genus. Larvae have been known to take 30 years to complete their development in structural timbers. The emergence holes sometimes penetrate roofing materials which results in leakages. The Orpheum Theater in Vancouver was water damaged after "bargin priced" roofing timbers, cut from trees salvaged from the Taylor River fire on Vancouver Island, produced a large number of adult beetles which bored straight through the tar roof.The golden buprestid prefers Douglas fir, but will also attack several species of pine, spruce, and fir, and is occasionally found in western red cedar. Adults usually oviposit on bark of dead or dying trees. They are especially fond of trees which have lightning-struck, fire-scorched, or recently felled. Resinous wood is preferred. Larvae require 1-3 years to complete development. In buildings, egg to adult development may be prolonged to 30, 40, even 50 years.Many thanks to Larry Meade for the identification.
Anita C. Leight Estuary Center, Abingdon Harford Cnty Md.Edgewood Quad 39076_D3bugguide.net/node/view/2000262Hosts are maple, beech, blackgum, oak and elm.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Buprestis splendens, in Georgiy Jacobson's work "Beetles Russia and Western Europe” discribed as Buprestis aurulenta (it is synonymic name for B. Splendens; B. aurulenta occurs only in North America). Date: 16 March 2013, 17:37:00. Source: Georgiy Jacobson "Beetles Russia and Western Europe". Uploaded from http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/Coleoptera/rus/jactab1.htm. Author: Georgiy Jacobson and others.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Golden Buprestid; Cypriacis aurulenta, taken near Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. Date: 22 July 2009, 02:22:39. Source: Own work. Author: Kati Fleming. Other versions: Golden Buprestid; Buprestis (Cypriacis)aurulenta, WY; colorful beetle close-up. Camera location44° 58′ 10.54″ N, 110° 42′ 22.15″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 44.969595; -110.706153.
Summary[edit] Description: Underside of Buprestis octopunctata. Date: 17 November 2007. Source: Own work. Author: Siga. Permission(Reusing this file): public domain.
About 1 inch in length. Found in late August on the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, CanadaFamily characteristics + particular features - brilliant metallic green with red line along outer and inner margins of elytra; bronze colour below. Surface "sculpturing" of elytra characterized by wide spaces separated by narrow ridges. This species is the most damaging in its genus. Larvae have been known to take 30 years to complete their development in structural timbers. The emergence holes sometimes penetrate roofing materials which results in leakages. The Orpheum Theater in Vancouver was water damaged after "bargin priced" roofing timbers, cut from trees salvaged from the Taylor River fire on Vancouver Island, produced a large number of adult beetles which bored straight through the tar roof.The golden buprestid prefers Douglas fir, but will also attack several species of pine, spruce, and fir, and is occasionally found in western red cedar. Adults usually oviposit on bark of dead or dying trees. They are especially fond of trees which have lightning-struck, fire-scorched, or recently felled. Resinous wood is preferred. Larvae require 1-3 years to complete development. In buildings, egg to adult development may be prolonged to 30, 40, even 50 years.Many thanks to Larry Meade for the identification.
Description: Buprestis aurulenta. Along the trail to Lily Lake, Sawtooth National Forest near Stanley, Idaho. Date: 1 August 2014, 12:05. Source: Golden Buprestid. Author: Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. Camera location44° 05′ 47.39″ N, 114° 57′ 35.08″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 44.096496; -114.959745.
Gerald J. Lenhard, Louisiana State University, Bugwood.org
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Summary[edit] Description: English: Buprestis lineata, USA. Date: 28 September 2014, 07:45:07. Source: : This image is Image Number 0014261 at Forestry Images, a source for forest health, natural resources and silviculture images operated by The Bugwood Network at the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service.. Author: Gerald J. Lenhard, Louisiana State University, Bugwood.org.