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This beetle was on the side of the camp near the roof peak when I drove in yesterday morning. I knocked it down with a fishing rod, put it on a stack of cement blocks and managed a few photos while it was still. For size:http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9363794549/ The metal portion of my truck key is 40mm long (a little over 1 1/2"). A big beetle. A side view: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9366580936/ Then it stopped playing dead and got active. It pranced around displaying its jaws and lashing its antennae about rapidly before marching away: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9366578168/ I think it is a male Prionus, or Giant Root Borer, in the Cerambycidae (Long Horned Beetles). Perhaps someone can positively identify it and give me some info about it (food, life history etc). Thanks, Nancy
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