h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...A long-horned beetle!

This from Jez, ('a sweary teacher') on Twitter:

'It's the red-brown longhorn beetle. Typically found on the sort of plant pictured on - umbellifers, alium, etc.

I had to look up the Latin, Leptura rubra.'

We are grateful!

I figured it was some kind of longhorned beetle. We have some bad, invasive ones in our area, doing their best to destroy some of our precious trees

(I don't take threats to trees lightly . Global warming will make our summers hotter, and we'll need more shade trees, not fewer. Start planting more as soon as possible!)

here's the Asian longhorned beetle:
http://www.dontmovefirewood.org/pest_pathogen/asian-long-horned-beetle-html/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7uzaq4qr6wIVA7LICh0IfABoEAAYAiAAEgJANvD_BwE

(I think it looks just plain evil )

With 26,000 species top choose form, you get some dillies. There's a red milkweed beetle that eats milkweed. There's a spruce beetle, a cactus beetle, a citrus beetle, one with a venomous sting, and massive Titan beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world.