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Found this little beauty on the patio yesterday ... I thought initially that it was wasp beetle but I think it might be one of the Longhorn ones- only thing that threw me a bit was the brown legs ?

Any ideas ?
 

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Yes ... I think you are spot on ... Leptura aurulenta Fabricius, 1793 The Hornet Beetle

Side by side - could be twins !
 

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I grow Asparagus. This is an asparagus beetle. It has much shorter black antennae, red thorax and white bands on black elytra.
 

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