Stowaway

Cleaning out tents today with Mookie, who discovered this borer beetle in Tent 4's garbage. How he got in there, I have no idea. Thankfully Mookie is the sort of assistant manager who, in a passion for scientific knowledge, will allow you to drop the bed you're making and run back to your tent for your Sierra Nevada field guide. Best we could discern, this is Targosoma depsarius, the Hairy Pine Borer.

The family is Cerambycidae, or the long-horned beetle family. It includes some 20,000 species worldwide, most of which have antennae equal to or greater than the length of the body. This particular specimen was about 3 inches (7.5 cm) long.