I wanted to see if I could get a little bit better shots of that native cerambycid beetle I took a few weeks back. They seem to really like rotten koa trees as I rather easily found another one on the same tree as before. I think RCL Perkins had mentioned a century before that one of our native insectivorous honeycreepers (possibly Loxops?) was full of these type of beetles. He marveled at their ability to catch them. O`ahu `Akepa have not been seen since Perkins time, but I’m glad to have glimpses of that food web and imagine extinct little red birds taking interest in this very bug.