Northeastern Pine Sawyer

Monochamus notatus · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Cerambycidae

Also called: Northeastern Sawyer, Northeastern Pine Sawyer Beetle

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Northeastern Pine Sawyer
Photo: Dan MacNeal, CC BY

Monochamus notatus is a beetle in the long-horn family. It lives in Canada and the United States. The species is native to North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Monochamus notatus is a long-horn beetle.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is found in Canada and the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

The beetle is native to North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 24 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Northeastern Pine Sawyer photo 3
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Northeastern Pine Sawyer photo 4
Photo: Jack Forrester, CC BY
Northeastern Pine Sawyer photo 5
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Northeastern Pine Sawyer photo 6
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Same family (Cerambycidae)

House LonghornHouse LonghornHylotrupes bajulusCan damage your homeAsian Longhorned BeetleAsian Longhorned BeetleAnoplophora glabripennisDamages trees, gardens or cropsRed Milkweed BeetleRed Milkweed BeetleTetraopes tetrophthalmusWhite-spotted SawyerWhite-spotted SawyerMonochamus scutellatusCan damage your homeRed Pine Longhorn BeetleRed Pine Longhorn BeetleStictoleptura rubraSpotted Longhorn BeetleSpotted Longhorn BeetleRutpela maculataDamages trees, gardens or crops

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochamus_notatus

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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