Short horns for a longhorn

Have a bit of a blog backlog at the moment as I'm just back from a week's holiday on the west coast of Scotland and about to head off back north of the wall to Abernethy Forest for work. More on that in a bit.

Firstly, just before I went away a colleague told me he'd seen a longhorn at the Lodge that I'd not seen. The next day I went to the same area and within 5 mins had found two of them at the base of a pine tree. Over the next 30 mins I'd found at least another 10.

Asemum striatum. Probably pretty common where ever there is pine, and has rather short horns for a longhorn. In fact in flight it looks like a big click beetle.