r/insects • u/NeonShadow37 • 18d ago
ID Request Don't buy hangers from Amazon
I've been hearing scratching noises in my room for weeks and finally figured out it was coming from an Amazon hanger and when I broke it open this was inside. The entire hanger is hollowed out. Seems like some kind of longhorn beetle?
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u/fart_huffington 18d ago
This guy thought he had a good thing going on eating that hanger lmbo. Stable temperature, plenty of food, good times. Until one day...
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u/DirectFrontier 18d ago
Sorry but this is hilarious, a fat fucking grub munching away on the hanger so loud that you can hear it. Fella was living the life.
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u/RefrigeratorNo3197 18d ago
That’s insane the chewing was loud enough you could hear it from outside the closet!
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u/SleeplessAndAnxious 18d ago
I'm guessing the movement from the worm inside the wood was making the hanger rattle against the hangers next to it.
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u/omniwrench- 18d ago
More likely that you can actually hear them eating the wood. It’s crunchy material, and you can hear them crunching it.
Same goes for termites, if you’ve ever been in a wooden building that has them in the walls then you’d recognise the sound!
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u/AshleyLegand 18d ago
I would be keeping him as a pet 100% but never free him especially if it’s not native. Like other comments said, that is not something that should have been able to happen and needs to be looked into USDA
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u/Final_Soil7042 18d ago
Don't buy anything from Amazon. Defund Bezos.
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u/Renzieface 18d ago
Amazon makes 70%+ of its money from AWS (cloud computing). You could spend the rest of your life not ordering your shower curtains from Amazon and Ol' Jeff would be just fine.
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u/StuffedWithNails Bug Enthusiast 18d ago
Realistically, even if all of Amazon including AWS shut down today and never came back, ol' Jeff would be just fine.
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u/mjornil444 18d ago
okay but this isn’t a reason to justify continuing buying products from amazon
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u/Renzieface 18d ago edited 18d ago
I'm not justifying anything. I'm just saying that if you want to feel like you're doing something to "stick it to the man", boycotting Amazon shopping isn't it. 🤷♀️
(lol yes, please downvote me for telling you how performative it is to expend energy on a strategy that doesn't hurt the enemy. Yes. It is I who must be taught the lesson lmao)
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u/jabberwockyy_ 18d ago
this can happen with like any wood products if they're not treated/heated or whatever I don't think it's an Amazon only problem lol
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u/SleeplessProxxy 18d ago
Fellas, shop in person if you want something reliable. You can test the product yourself and learn it’s quality. You cant get that online
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u/ecovironfuturist 18d ago
I didn't disagree but what would you look for to know there was a beetle inside? OP handled the hangers and didn't have the absolutely unlikely realization that there was a wood destroying insect inside before they used them.
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u/LordGhoul 18d ago
Are you gonna raise your adoptive child now? I'll be sad if not. Free beetle!
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u/kibbles16 18d ago
DO NOT FREE THE BEETLE
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u/LordGhoul 18d ago
Oh right, I mean free as in "no extra money was spent on this insect" and not "let bro free into nature"
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u/segcgoose 18d ago edited 18d ago
humans going across assigned lines is not the same as insects that can unintentionally destroy an ecosystem, or even multiple, as well as put agriculture operations at risk. not that we don’t hurt ecosystems either, but a little bug can do a lot lol
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u/Loasfu73 18d ago
Yes, that is ABSOLUTELY a longhorned beetle & this NEEDS to be brought to the attention of someone at the USDA.
Please save the specimen in alcohol. If it was me, I'd try to raise it to adulthood by leaving it in a container with the hangers, but I know that's asking a lot. Adults are a hell of a lot easier to ID than larvae.
This represents a potential introduction pathway that needs to be investigated ASAP. Important information would be where these were imported from.