r/whatisit • u/Cultural_Fall_3255 • 9h ago

New, what is it? What is this thing.

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u/sarabridge78 8h ago

Do you know what exact species it is? I tried to look it up but there are 35,000 species in the cerambycidae family.

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u/overdramaticpan 8h ago

someone else commented that it's the mango-stem borer, Batocera Rufomaculata (the commenter saying Batocera Parryi is also plausible though, it's hard to tell since i'm unused to identifying most beetles)

it's definitely in the Batocera genus though

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u/Financial_Luck_6906 7h ago

I’m reading all about them now (Batocera). Fascinating. I’m trying to get over my aversion to bugs by following bug pages/subs (I like one on FB that has Kevin in the page name, I hate FB but it’s the reason I go - mostly spiders though, and now I love them). The more I learn the less I fear (kinda, from my house in urban NV where we have very few bugs, safely looking at these earth aliens on a screen lol).

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u/crashlanding87 4h ago

Has anyone welcomed over to r/wormington yet? You might like it there.