Habitat
Adults: terrestrial
Immatures: terrestrial

Feeding Habits
Adults: phytophagous
Immatures: phytophagous

North American
Species: 675

Coleoptera Buprestidae
Metallic wood-boring beetles

Special Characteristics: These beetles are metallic coloured, often coppery, green, blue or black and the elytra often have a distinct sculptured surface. The body is hard and compact often flattened. The larvae have the anterior end flattened and enlarged and are sometimes called "flat-headed wood borers".

Comments: Both the larvae and adults live in dead or dying trees, and under bark on logs. Some species will attack living trees or newly cut or dying logs and branches. Other species occur on the foliage of trees and shrubs, or are leaf miners. Most Buprestidae will fly when they are disturbed but a few will play dead. Some tropical species are much bigger, sometimes reaching 100 mm in length, and are very brightly coloured.

Species:
Buprestis fasciata (Fabricius)

Common Name:
Eastern metallic green wood borer

Feeding Habits: The larvae of this species attack pine, maple, poplar and oak trees.

Distribution:
Eastern Canada